File over 2GB using Cygwin
David Bolen
db3l at fitlinxx.com
Sat Feb 23 08:56:49 EST 2002
Martin Pool [mbp at samba.org] writes:
> It could be an interesting project to try to build rsync under MSVC++.
> Presumably it can handle large files. I don't think there's anything
> impossible in principle about it.
Not in principle, but unless you're also going to handle the same fork
emulation and Unix semantics that Cygwin is doing, it's unlikely to be
a weekend project :-)
In theory a native port might use threads and overlapping I/O very
effectively, but I think it would be fairly tough to do without some
significant changes to the existing code.
-- David
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