From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:24:27 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <8739ln1u2c.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <87wrj1jhfc.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <87d3ktjb9l.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <877hb1j7lz.fsf@rho.meyering.net> <877hb1m0jy.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <87wrj0fo8x.fsf@rho.meyering.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302614705 19759 80.91.229.12 (12 Apr 2011 13:25:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:25:05 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 12 15:24:59 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9daV-0003bA-8x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:24:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36597 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9daU-0004gD-Lh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:24:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:54382) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9daO-0004cL-La for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:24:57 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9daJ-0001Xq-M8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:24:52 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:35758) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9daJ-0001WE-GQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:24:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9daA-0003MK-OU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:24:38 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:24:38 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:24:38 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 11 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6kqYesMtuXTJcmB1COMzKR34c5M= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:138435 Archived-At: On Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:54:06 +0200 Jim Meyering wrote: JM> Since someone mentioned a goal of being able to edit a 2GiB JM> file, I thought people here would be sensitive to an API policy JM> that renders that goal unreachable on some systems. Just to add my vote: I think Emacs should be able to open and edit 2 GB and larger files, although IIUC the API policy discussed here doesn't remove that possibility. Ted