Andrew Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.

> 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

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 :-(

                        regards, tom lane

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