[Box Backup-dev] Re: [Box Backup] First official Win32 release

[Ben Summers]

On 27 Jan 2006, at 01:30, Martin Ebourne wrote:

> On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 22:30 +0000, Chris Wilson wrote:
>> Please have a look at the branch I created for SSL keepalives, and  
>> let me
>> know if there's anything blocking it from inclusion:
>>
>> svn diff -r 323:326 \
>> http://bbdev.fluffy.co.uk/svn/box/chris/diff-timeout-and-ssl- 
>> keepalive
>
> I've read through that diff, all looks plausible to me.

Fine by me too.



>
>> As far as I know, large files (>4Gb) are simply not supported by  
>> the MinGW
>> compiler using the standard C library functions. One has to  
>> replace them
>> with Windows-specific functions, and I haven't had time to do that  
>> yet.
>>
>> Also, autoconf detects that large file support is not available  
>> (off_t
>> remains 4 bytes long), and I haven't figured out how to work around
>> that yet.
>
> I take it the windows specific functions don't use off_t? If so then
> detect the windows functions, and make AC_SYS_LARGEFILE conditional on
> their absence. If present then just set the largefile define(s).

I thought the posix emulation stuff "just worked" for large files on  
Win32?

Ben