On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Gisle Vanem wrote:

> > Doesn't windows provide an 'off_t' type larger than 32 bits? If so, then
>
> No, 'off_t' (actually '_off_t') is 'long' on all I've checked (MSVC v6,
> MingW Watcom and Digital Mars).

Ok, then we don't currently support large files completely on Windows...

> > I would guess that Windows has support for large files somehow!
>
> Natively it does, but in the various libc it's little support for it. There
> is fstati64(), telli64(), lseeki64() etc. in MingW/MSVC (not the libc, but
> in the MSVCRT.DLL), so resuming >2GB files should work.

The code uses 'off_t' for large resume index and since that is 32 bit only...

> They all have 64-bit longs ('long long' or '__int64'). So 'filesize_t'
> should be careful not to use use 64 bit file-offsets.

filesize_t is not used, we use off_t internally and in the API to pass along
large file sizes where needed.

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