Tom Lane wrote:
>Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
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>>There is no fseeko in the Windows libraries, nor any provision in the
>>mingw headers that I can see for a 64 bit off_t. So we would need to
>>roll our own to some extent - I think we need more than just a bit of
>>configure cleverness.
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>>However, there is a Windows library routine to do a 64bit seek and
>>return the file position, so we could fairly easily implement fseeko and
>>ftello based on that. See
>>http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/vclib/html/_crt__lseek.2c_._lseeki64.asp
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>Is there any risk that the mingw libraries would fail when manipulating
>a file whose current offset exceeds 32 bits? I'm wondering if we'd have
>to roll our own stdio in toto, not just fseeko/ftello :-(
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AFAIK all this is coming straight from the base Windows libraries. I
guess we'll have to test it when we get around to it.
cheers
andrew
