[phobos] phobos commit, revision 1877

[David Simcha]

Great.  I'll stress test this (i.e. test it in ways that would not be 
feasible to include in a unittest, such as with an actual 5GB file) 
tonight.  Right now I don't have time.  I'll let you know how it goes.

On 8/17/2010 3:09 AM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
> Steve Schveighoffer wrote:
>> This is wrong on two counts.
>>
>> First, david is right, changing from long to ulong is a mistake.  
>> long is correct, this supports 2^63 bytes, which is plenty larger 
>> than the current 2GB limitation, and it allows negative seeking 
>> without issue.
>
> Good point. Fixed.
>
>> Second, you cannot do a tell on the file handle, because you need to 
>> take into account the buffer.
>
> My understanding is that calling fflush() before lseek should be fine. 
> See my upcoming commit.
>
>
> Andrei
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