At 11:32 AM 3/9/2002, Nicolae Santean wrote: >Is anybody aware of any issue related to the system >call of read(filedescriptor, buffer, nbytes) under >cygwin? The function is supposed to return 0 if EOF >or # of bytes read otherwise. I get a 4GB read - >clearly not correct (nbytes == 277). > >Appreciating,
As mentioned in the mailing list archives previously, Cygwin uses 32-bit pointers. So you're result is expected, given that. Larry Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
