Re: Writing large data to file

2016-01-11 Thread Domain via Digitalmars-d

On Tuesday, 12 January 2016 at 07:15:33 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:

On 01/10/2016 06:43 PM, Domain wrote:
I am writing a split-liked tool, and want to write some large 
data

(>4GB) to a single file. But this is not possible while using
std.file.write, at least on windows. And I need dig into the 
source code
to find out the reason (Windows API WriteFile uses DWORD as 
the input
size). So why not call WriteFile multiple times inside write 
function,
or at least return the number of bytes has been written, than 
I can

append the left myself.


Have you tried std.stdio.File? write or rawWrite should work:

  http://dlang.org/phobos/std_stdio.html#.File

Ali


I know that. But I want to see an improvement in std.file.write, 
or at least the doc of it.


Re: Writing large data to file

2016-01-11 Thread Ali Çehreli via Digitalmars-d

On 01/10/2016 06:43 PM, Domain wrote:

I am writing a split-liked tool, and want to write some large data
(>4GB) to a single file. But this is not possible while using
std.file.write, at least on windows. And I need dig into the source code
to find out the reason (Windows API WriteFile uses DWORD as the input
size). So why not call WriteFile multiple times inside write function,
or at least return the number of bytes has been written, than I can
append the left myself.


Have you tried std.stdio.File? write or rawWrite should work:

  http://dlang.org/phobos/std_stdio.html#.File

Ali



Writing large data to file

2016-01-10 Thread Domain via Digitalmars-d
I am writing a split-liked tool, and want to write some large 
data (>4GB) to a single file. But this is not possible while 
using std.file.write, at least on windows. And I need dig into 
the source code to find out the reason (Windows API WriteFile 
uses DWORD as the input size). So why not call WriteFile multiple 
times inside write function, or at least return the number of 
bytes has been written, than I can append the left myself.