[MPlayer-dev-eng] Re: [PATCH] make demuxer_get_percent_pos() recheck file length

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 10:38:40PM +0300, Jan Knutar wrote:
> On Monday 03 October 2005 20:55, Oded Shimon wrote:
> 
> > I dunno anything about windows API, but does it have integer file 
> > descriptors?
> 
> More importantly, for example a network file descriptor and a regular file
> descriptor are different under Windows and you can't use the same calls
> on them (i.e. if you have a network one you can't read() it). Dunno if
> mingw/cygwin hides this from you though. I suspect MinGW/MSYS does
> not.

Of course cygwin 'hides' it since it's in blatent violation of posix.
Unfortunately mingw doesn't. :(

Rich