On 7/26/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007, Robin Rosenberg wrote: > > Does cygwin have the same pread problem then.. ? after make NO_PREAD=1 with 1.5.2.4 > clone works. Interesting. It's true that pread() is used much less than normal reads, and maybe the cygwin pread() is indeed broken. But it's intriguing how apparently both HP-UX and Cygwin are showing the same breakage.
Maybe because neither _has_ POSIX pread? This is cygwin's pread, I believe: http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_disk_file.cc?rev=1.225&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src Windows has means to implement it natively, but the interface is so ugly (see OVERLAPPED, if interested), that it is no wonder Cygwin chose to just use lseek. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
