[V] carbon2-commit: Use bignums if necessary for file size in
#'file-attributes.
Stephen J. Turnbull
stephen at xemacs.org
Mon Jan 21 03:48:08 EST 2008
Michael Sperber writes:
> Or (or (> size max-file-size) (eq size -1)), which actually seems
> reasonable to me.
I still don't like it; a file size of -1 makes it plain to everybody
that this file can't be handled by XEmacs.
> Other than that, it seems a bad idea to couple "large-file-ness" to
> an arbitrary and not necessarily corresponding restriction in
> `file-attributes'. Rather, we should probably introduce a
> predicate `large-file-p' or `large-file-attributes-p'.
Agreed. I suspect that there are a half-dozen of issues like this
that we should identify (preferably resolve) before making any attempt
to support large files (even in `file-attributes').
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