1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index f90a114b02..9a8e336582 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -140,6 +140,23 @@ int mingw_open (const char *filename, int oflags, ...)
 	return fd;
 }
 
+#undef write
+ssize_t mingw_write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count)
+{
+	/*
+	 * While write() calls to a file on a local disk are translated
+	 * into WriteFile() calls with a maximum size of 64KB on Windows
+	 * XP and 256KB on Vista, no such cap is placed on writes to
+	 * files over the network on Windows XP.  Unfortunately, there
+	 * seems to be a limit of 32MB-28KB on X64 and 64MB-32KB on x86;
+	 * bigger writes fail on Windows XP.
+	 * So we cap to a nice 31MB here to avoid write failures over
+	 * the net without changing the number of WriteFile() calls in
+	 * the local case.
+	 */
+	return write(fd, buf, min(count, 31 * 1024 * 1024));
+}
+
 #undef fopen
 FILE *mingw_fopen (const char *filename, const char *otype)
 {