On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 08:36:28PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: > The pwrite self-test fails under Cygwin, is this a known issue?
No :) > > http://autobuild.josefsson.org/gnulib/log-201005172227940062000.txt Hmm, it succeeds writing a byte at (off_t)-1? I guess you end up with a very large sparse file :) This chunk of the test I blindly copied from test-pread.c and changed to pwrite instead. It may be ok that this succeeds, it didn't on the 3 systems I tried it on though (FreeBSD, RHEL, HP-UX10), it failed and set errno to EINVAL. Peter -- Peter O'Gorman po...@thewrittenword.com