Cygwin size-limitations

[Chilleck, Joachim]

> To Cygwin list,
> 
> I'm looking for further informations/documentation about Cygwin
> size-limitations.
> Does exist known problems with big files itself (per example zipped files
> from gzip)?
> 
> Thanks (especially to Corinna Vinschen)
> 
> "Corinna Vinschen" wrote:
> > The size limit is regarding to the fact that size and positional
> > calculations are based on 32bit ints. You should be able to read
> > such files in sequential order and seek to any position < 2^32.
> > If this is not enough you will have to use Win32-API calls for now.
> 
> Hessische Zentrale für Datenverarbeitung
> Tel. 0611-340-299
> Fax 0611-9020-299
> j.chilleck@hzd.hessen.de
> 

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