From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: oops? read/write vs type of length parameter Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:29:29 -0400 Message-ID: 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> <8739ln1u2c.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302614984 21467 80.91.229.12 (12 Apr 2011 13:29:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 13:29:44 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 12 15:29:40 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 1Q9df1-0006b5-Ee for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:29:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41520 helo=lists2.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9dex-0007gc-Ux for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:29:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:38039) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9dev-0007gB-43 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:29:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9des-0002AP-B7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:29:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:51761) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9des-0002AL-9X for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:29:30 -0400 Original-Received: from eliz by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9der-0008Fl-RZ; Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:29:29 -0400 In-reply-to: <8739ln1u2c.fsf@lifelogs.com> (message from Ted Zlatanov on Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:24:27 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 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:138436 Archived-At: > From: Ted Zlatanov > Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:24:27 -0500 > > 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. Of course, it doesn't! I made that change to be able to edit a 2.7GB file, and after the change I actually was able to do that, whereas before the change, I couldn't save the file after editing it.