From: Richard Jones <rich@annexia.org>
To: Jonathan Roewen <jonathan.roewen@gmail.com>
Cc: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] ocaml file operations question
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:52:26 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060724085226.GA11739@furbychan.cocan.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <11877363411-BeMail@beos>
On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 07:46:32AM -0700, Jonathan Roewen wrote:
> If I'm using an OS/FS that supports sparse files (apparently linux does
> this without any magic flags or anything), will reading/writing to this
> file work as expected in OCaml? I guess I'll have to use Unix module
> anyway just to get a read/write file in the first place...
For *nix, the Unix module is just wrappers around the operating system
calls, so just do what you would normally do in (eg) C. Later
versions of Windows / NTFS support sparse files, but I've no idea what
you need to do to support sparse files under that OS.
Rich.
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