On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:11:11PM -0700, David Rothenberger wrote: >David Rothenberger writes: > > Charles Wilson wrote: > > > > > > Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I've uploaded the 64 bit version of patch, 2.5.8-4, marked as "test". > > > > > > This didn't work, for me. I got (from memory, this was late last night) > > > a "Illegal seek value" error message or something every time I tried to > > > patch. (And yes, I was currently running a full-up 1.5.0-test system) > > > > FYI, it works if you use the -i switch. It only fails when reading the > > patch file from stdin. > >I did some more research into this. It looks to me like fdopen() >does not setup FILE* correctly -- it doesn't set the internal >function pointer for seek64. This causes a subsequent fseeko() >(resolved to fseeko64() somehow) to fail because the function >pointer isn't there. > >More details and a STC can be found in ><http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-07/msg01425.html>. > >I'm posting here so Corinna doesn't have to wade through all the >cygwin postings when she gets back....
I appreciate the research *very* much but this is not the appropriate mailing list for this. I wouldn't bother to comment but I would hate to see a bunch of "This is just for Corinna for when she gets back" messages here in the next N weeks. cgf
