How to use __DYNAMIC_REENT__ correctly in multithreaded applications?

Corinna Vinschen vinschen@redhat.com
Mon Aug 25 19:11:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 04:01:44PM -0400, J. Johnston wrote:
> For clarification, I am not referring to a function, I am referring to the 
> struct stat64
> which is needed as an argument to _fstat64_r or _stat64 for that matter.  
> There is no struct
> stat64 or struct _stat64 defined externally under Cygwin.  The compiler 
> fails because
> it does not know the size of the structure.  Under linux, the type is 
> defined and this is not a
> problem.

Cygwin has a struct __stat64.  We could also define a struct stat64
but this would be contrary to the effort to handle the new structures
transparent.  struct __stat64 is struct stat from the applications
point of view.

Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Developer
Red Hat, Inc.



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