> I guess what we really need
> is to redefine fsblkcnt_t to become a 64 bit type. Oh well, this
> requires another backward compatibility hack, just like back when we
> switched to 64 bit off_t (Cygwin 1.5). Let's do it at the same time as
> we change sigset_t and time_t to 64-bits(with knock-on effects to
> struct stat, among others). In other words,all good changes, but certainly
> something that will take a lot ofplanning to pull off in one go.
Can you fix the jmp_buf size then too maybe?
It is blown up by a factor of 4.
http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2009-01/msg00863.html
I realize it has less/no value to fixing.
But I'm not sure how changing the others won't require *everything*
(just about) to be recompiled anyway. Maybe you rename functions somehow?
Thanks,
- Jay
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