[Caml-list] Unix.lseek versus Pervasives.pos

[Basile STARYNKEVITCH <basile@starynkevitch.net>]

>>>>> "Shivkumar" == Shivkumar Chandrasekaran <shiv@ece.ucsb.edu> writes:

    Shivkumar> Hi, Currently I am trying to handle "LargeFiles" while
    Shivkumar> marshalling caml values and I have run into this
    Shivkumar> incidental problem (nothing to do with LargeFile). If I
    Shivkumar> open a file with "open_out_bin", write to it using
    Shivkumar> "output_value" 

You apparently forgot to flush the channel.

    Shivkumar> and then try to determine the position
    Shivkumar> in the file using "pos", I get the correct
    Shivkumar> value. However, if I use Unix.lseek thus

    Shivkumar> Unix.lseek (Unix.descr_of_out_channel fd_out) 0
    Shivkumar> Unix.SEEK_CUR

    Shivkumar> I get a different value (so far always 0) 


Forgetting to flush files on most systems should give similar
errors. Flushing files is not Ocaml specific, but a general issue (at
least under Unix, and probably Windows).

Perhaps the Ocaml manual could add as a hint to never forget flushing
files (but the tip might be there already), but this hint is very
basic & generic and is not Ocaml specific.

Regards.

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