This is wrong on two counts. First, david is right, changing from long to ulong is a mistake. long is correct, this supports 2^63 bytes, which is plenty larger than the current 2GB limitation, and it allows negative seeking without issue.
Second, you cannot do a tell on the file handle, because you need to take into account the buffer. I went through this exercise with Kris in Tango, seek and tell need to account for the buffer for any semblance of normalcy. Tango used to have a buffer that was both a read and write buffer, depending how you used it. The problem is, seek/tell didn't know how you were using it (the code is *very* different to account for the buffer on read vs. write) :) In response to the "why UnbufferedFile" requirement, it's for this same reason. If you pass the FILE*, you may have consumed some data from the raw handle into the buffer, and then expect the child process to read from the start of your buffer, which of course it can't. Using UnbufferedFile makes it clear that you need to ignore the buffer. Lars put in some methods to convert easily from File to UnbufferedFile. I think we discussed this on the ML a while back... -Steve ----- Original Message ---- > From: Andrei Alexandrescu <[email protected]> > To: Discuss the phobos library for D <[email protected]> > Sent: Mon, August 16, 2010 4:10:05 PM > Subject: Re: [phobos] phobos commit, revision 1877 > > Works on win32wine and osx, could someone check on Linuxen? > > Andrei > > dsource.org wrote: > > phobos commit, revision 1877 > > > > > > user: andrei > > > > msg: > > Fixed seek and tell for large files > > > > http://www.dsource.org/projects/phobos/changeset/1877 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > phobos mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos > _______________________________________________ > phobos mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos > _______________________________________________ phobos mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/phobos
