Re: syswrite issue

[Michael Fowler]

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 02:23:42PM -0700, Manish Tiwari wrote:
> how big a file can be created using syswrite ..it fails generally over 2G

It depends on restrictions imposed by your OS, filesystem, and the
underlying C libraries Perl uses.

You're probably hitting a 2G limit because of the data type used to hold the
file's size; the positive limit of a 4 byte signed value is 2147483648, or
2G.


Michael
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