[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Lib/test test_largefile.py,1.12,1.12.6.1

[Michael Hudson]

Tim Peters <tim.one@comcast.net> writes:

> > Modified Files:
> >       Tag: release22-maint
> > 	test_largefile.py
> > Log Message:
> > Backport Tim's work on getting file.truncate working better on Win32.
> 
> I think this is questionable for a bugfix release, and that's why I didn't
> mark it "bugfix candidate".  It definitely changes behavior in "very large
> file position" cases, and I have no idea whether the current implementation
> exactly reproduces the old one in all "normal" cases (the semantics of the
> old MS _chsize() aren't documented by MS in sufficient detail to say).

OK, I've backed it out again (after confusing cvs somewhat).

Sorry for the mis-read.

Cheers,
M.

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