Stefan-W. Hahn writes:
> It seems to be a problem with cygwin.dll prior v1.5.22 and pread(), if
> using an offset!=0. (I'm running cygwin.dll v1.5.21 build date
> 2006-07-27 and I can't update because of other compatibility problems).
You should compile a cygwin.dll from 1.5.21 sources with the pread
patch applied.
Could you enumerate the other compatability problems?