[erlang-patches] Fix appending to large files (>4GB) on Windows

[Filipe David Manana]

Awesome.

Thanks a lot for the patch :)

2010/10/1 Björn Gustavsson <bgustavsson@REDACTED>:
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 6:24 AM, Juhani Ränkimies <juhani@REDACTED> wrote:
>> Append mode doesn't work for files larger that 4GB on Windows. The
>> problem occurs when the file is larger than 4GB at opening time. If
>> it's smaller at opening time, it can grow beyond 4GB.
>>
>> I suspect that passing NULL lpDistanceToMoveHigh to SetFilePointer in
>> the file driver causes moves larger that 2^32 to fail.
>> http://msdn.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/aa365541.aspx
>>
>> git fetch git://github.com/juranki/otp.git windows_file_append_2
>>
>
> Thanks! Included in pu.
>
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> Björn Gustavsson, Erlang/OTP, Ericsson AB
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