On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 03:42:14PM +0100, Werner Tuchan wrote: >> Weird. The bytes after EOF are a mixture of NULs and 0xc0. Is 0xc0 >> of special significance in Windows? Is your version of cygwin the >> latest? I recall some talk about mmap bugs in cygwin. > >The cygwin version is pretty recent. Two weeks old or so. The data after EOF >is only garbage. I've seen different values than 0x0 or 0xc0 in the error >messages. Windows propably doesn't clear the page before mapping the file >onto it. There is likely a different behaviour here between Windows ME and >NT.
Can I ask why we'd be reading beyond EOF? Is it guaranteed that bytes beyond EOF will be zero on UNIX? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
