Re: [RFC] File::SplitStream - iterate over files >2GB when large file support unavailable

AJ <ajperl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I am implementing a module and seek the community's input about its
> suitability for placement on CPAN. File::SplitStream (I am open to
> better names) is designed to be used when an OS supports large files,
> but the Perl interpreter does not have large file support enabled
> (specifically, Red Hat Linux did this for awhile). It uses the Unix
> split command to split the large file into <2GB chunks, the generates an
> iterator to allow the calling routine to transparently read the file
> chunks as if they are still one large file.

I don't understand the need for this. It doesn't appear to implement
"seek" and "tell", only streaming. It has been a while since I've used
a small-file perl, but I never knew there was a problem in streaming large
files in the first place. I thought it was only seek and tell (and
truncate, and maybe other non-streaming things) which elicited the problem.

Xho

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