Re: less.exe v481-1 cannot seek to EOF in CRLF file; current cygwin32, Win10 only.

[Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>]

On 08/09/2016 15:06, staffanu wrote:
> KARL BOTTS wrote
>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>>>> Any size larger than a few meg.  That is, any size that takes more
>>> than
>> a few
>>>>> milliseconds to seek to the end, I think.
>>>>
>>>> We will need someone with W10 to test it and confirm it.
>>>> On W7 I have no issue at all with 250MB file
>>>
>>> Tested on W10-64-cygwin-32 and a 207M-file, dos and unix-endings: both
>>> behave the same, i.e. no error when pressing 'G' and display the last
>>> line. Was that the question?
>>>
>>> cygwin 2.2.1, less 481
>>>
>>> -Helmut
>>
>> I have reproduced on Win7, same exact cygwin, same exact symptom.
>>
>> OK, that you guys can't reproduce suggests that there is something special
>> about my cygwin installation.
>>
>> What is special, I suspect, is that I have not actually recreated it in
>> many
>> years: I just update it, and copy the whole thing from machine to machine.
>> (I
>> described this in the attachment to my original email.)  That has worked
>> well
>> for a long time -- it is much easier and more consistent than running
>> setup.exe on many machines.  But I suspect it has broken down.  Somehow, I
>> may
>> have old libs or old config files mixed with new.  (This last update, from
>> 1.7
>> to 2.3, is clearly a big one.)
>>
>> So, I will re-install cygwin from scratch on one machine, this weekend.
>>
>> In the meantime, put this bug report on hold.  Thanks to all of you.
>>
>> I will let the list know how this comes out.
>
> Was this ever resolved? I have, I guess, the same problem. I cannot see that
> the size of files matter, however -- I see the problem for all CRLF files
> that I tested. (It worked fine before upgrading a few days ago.)
>
> The weird thing is that, moving the file with CRLF line endings to a binary
> mounted filesystem makes less work just fine. Reading the file from a text
> mounted filesystem results in the problem. Is not the point with text mounts
> to be able to read text files with CRLF line endings?
>
> Just as Karl, my Cygwin installation is very old -- i.e., any registry
> entries (that I think might include mount options?) might have been written
> 10 years ago. Did the meaning of text/binary mounts change?
>
> Staffan
>


no change on less package, if you are asking it.
So I expect no change on the matter.

In general, I do not see the added value of a text mount.

Regards
Marco

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