[erlang-questions] File size limits on file:write_file and file:write?

[Tony Rogvall]

On 4 maj 2011, at 13.49, Dave Challis wrote:

> On 04/05/11 12:45, Ahmed Omar wrote:
>> You wanted file:write_file/2 i guess
> 
> Oops, that was a mistake in the original post.
> 
> I've tried both:
> 
> file:write_file("/tmp/foo", Data).
> 

Nearly the same thing as below.

> and
> 
> {ok, Fp} = file:open("/tmp/foo", [write]).
> file:write(Fp, Data).
> 
> Both give {error,badarg} when Data > 2Gb, and write the file fine otherwise.
> 


Looks like the problem is in beam/utils/io_list_len.
io_list_len returns an int, which is 32 bit on x64_64.
The return type should probably be Sint, but the all calls to io_list_len must
be updated accordingly.

Workaround: write in smaller chunks.

/Tony

"Have run Make so many times I dunno what's installed anymore"

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