On 08/13/2016 06:22 PM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote: > On Saturday, August 13, 2016 at 10:49:11 PM UTC+12, eryk sun wrote: >> You can call GetFileSizeEx [1]. Or call GetFileInformationByHandleEx >> [2] to get the FileStandardInfo. These APIs use the LARGE_INTEGER >> union type, which has a long long "QuadPart" member. >> ... >> FILETIME is a legacy of the Windows API. The kernel and user-mode >> runtime library (i.e. Rtl* in ntdll) use LARGE_INTEGER. Note that all >> of the info classes for GetFileInformationByHandleEx also use >> LARGE_INTEGER because they're basically a thin layer over the NT API. >> ... >> [etc etc] > > What an absolute mess, compared to the simplicity of POSIX/Linux > <https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html>. > > Is it any wonder that Microsoft is now adding a Linux API layer to Windows?
Oops had to read the link first. I get it now! -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
