[issue9611] FileIO not 64-bit safe under Windows

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Thu Nov 4 13:17:10 CET 2010


Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> About the issue, I'd suggest to just clamp the length to 2**32-1, and
> don't bother retrying; leave this to the buffered layer.

Yes, I think it's reasonable.
(or perhaps clamp to something page-aligned, such as 2**32-4096).
Also, the signal issue which was raised by Martin above has since been fixed in r84239.

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