problem opening file

[Bengt Kleberg]

> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 13:20:28 -0500
> From: Garry Hodgson <garry@REDACTED>

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> i've gt two files in a directory, same permissions, differing
> by size (and content, of course):
> 
>    $ ls -l *.zone
>    -rw-rw-r--   1 garry    sage     2561435180 Nov 14 13:04 com.zone
>    -rw-rw-r--   1 garry    sage     323447644 Nov  9 11:45 org.zone
> 
> when i try to open the files, the smaller one works, the larger fails:

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> anybody know why?

There is nothing in the documentation (apart from the mentioning that
Erlang is 32-bit only), but com.zone is larger than 2^31 (2 GB), which
used to be 'too large' in the old days.
Unless somebody that knows steps in and really explain I conjecture
that Erlang uses 31 bit filesizes and you have to split the file before
opening it/them. Or use the FFI and have a C program deliver it in pieces.



bengt