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From: Marius Vollmer <mvo@zagadka.de>
Cc: Bill Schottstaedt <bil@ccrma.stanford.edu>
Subject: Re: file-exists? confused
Date: 26 Mar 2006 00:48:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87slp6qgyn.fsf@minimini.mvo.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87acbsslke.fsf@zip.com.au>

Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:

> Actually, I see off_t is exposed through the ptob port descriptor
> funcs, so implicitly changing to off64_t would break applications.

I think we need to redo the public port API anyway, for Unicode and to
clean it up.  At that time, we can also get large files right.
 
> It'd be nice if guile could use the 64 functions internally.  There
> might need to be new entries in the ptob for seek64 and truncate64
> versions of the seek and truncate funcs.  Or a flag saying which
> flavour is in use.
> 
> There doesn't seem to be any room in that struct, but if it's always
> created by scm_make_port_type then perhaps adding new fields to the
> end would keep compatibility.

Yes, that is good enough.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-25 22:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-13 16:55 file-exists? confused Bill Schottstaedt
2006-03-13 21:17 ` Kevin Ryde
2006-03-14 22:33   ` Kevin Ryde
2006-03-25 22:48     ` Marius Vollmer [this message]
2006-03-29  0:45       ` Kevin Ryde

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