> I hope I'm sending this to the right address, cc'ing Peter Bex > because he's mentioned in the .egg definition.
Yes, this is the right place. > The `memory-mapped-files` egg currently treats the `length` and > `offset` parameters of `mmap` as integers which arbitrarily > restricts mapable files to a size of MAX_INT bytes. > > By simply changing the type declaration in the `foreign-lambda` > definitions we can allow basically arbitrarily big files to be > mapped. > > Ultimately I'm looking to also patch the `simple-md5` egg to be > able to hash arbitrarily big files. Currently it has the same > restriction. > > Caveats: > 1. I have no insight if this was a deliberate restriction that > works around some issue I'm not aware of. > 2. I'm not able to test the code for any platform but linux. > > > I have basically no experience with svn, I hope I got the patch > format right, let me know if not. That's perfect - thanks a lot, I will apply the patch. If you have more of this, keep 'em coming. cheers, felix
