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Re: [Chicken-users] file-stat, file-size, regular-file? fail on large fi
From: |
Felix |
Subject: |
Re: [Chicken-users] file-stat, file-size, regular-file? fail on large files in chicken 3.4 on 32bit host |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:12:14 -0400 (EDT) |
From: Matthew Welland <address@hidden>
Subject: [Chicken-users] file-stat, file-size, regular-file? fail on large
files in chicken 3.4 on 32bit host
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:19:53 -0700
> I assume this is not a problem in chicken 4.x and or works fine if running on
> a 64 bit host? The manual seems to think these should yield an inexact
> number but I'm getting exceptions.
>
> For the moment I'm stuck on 3.4 so I've started writing work-around code,
> however is there a simple way or any existing work-around code to handle
> large files?
>
I think the easiest would be to use the foreign function interface to
directly invoke the C API to get at the required information. If you
need help accessing a particular function, just ask.
cheers,
felix