From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Heribert Dahms To: 'Mumit Khan' , Oliver Oberschelp Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: RE: Problems with dll-generation under Win98 Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 18:34:00 -0000 Message-ID: <99B82AA9708ED0119B55006097125A000FA97C@ifk63.mach.uni-karlsruhe.de> X-SW-Source: 1999-07n/msg00146.html Message-ID: <19990731183400.ysYnZiP2zmGPos3_1BcgKukWgM3eHDnWjmH9-GvzYYU@z> Hi Mumit, looks like you accidently omitted the critical word, so to clarify for newbies: Win9x does *not* zero out files past seek! (as it should like Unix and NT) Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-gmbh.de) > -----Original Message----- > From: Mumit Khan [SMTP:khan@xraylith.wisc.EDU] > Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 21:20 > To: Oliver Oberschelp > Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com > Subject: Re: Problems with dll-generation under Win98 > > On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Oliver Oberschelp wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I've got a strange problem with building dlls under Win98. > > Considering the following example for a batch file: > > Known problem. Win9x does zero out files if you seek past the end and > write. NT loader seems to be more forgiving and can successfully load > some of these DLLs, but Win9x does not. > > Regards, > Mumit -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com