NT (Windows kernel) doesn't care about filenames any more than Linux
NT (Windows kernel) doesn't care about filenames any more than Linux
Posted Nov 14, 2009 23:58 UTC (Sat) by yuhong (guest, #57183)In reply to: NT (Windows kernel) doesn't care about filenames any more than Linux by tialaramex
Parent article: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames
"files that are more than 2GB long"
Yep, NT had supported both files and disks larger than 2GB from the first
version (NT 3.1) using the NTFS filesystem. Exercise: compare the design of
the GetDiskFreeSpace and SetFilePointer APIs (look them up using MSDN or
Google), both of which has existed since NT 3.1. Which one was so much more
error-prone that the versions of Windows released in 1996 had to cap the
result to 2GB, even though older versions of NT supported returning more than
2GB using it, and why?
Yep, NT had supported both files and disks larger than 2GB from the first
version (NT 3.1) using the NTFS filesystem. Exercise: compare the design of
the GetDiskFreeSpace and SetFilePointer APIs (look them up using MSDN or
Google), both of which has existed since NT 3.1. Which one was so much more
error-prone that the versions of Windows released in 1996 had to cap the
result to 2GB, even though older versions of NT supported returning more than
2GB using it, and why?