From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id BAA03723; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 01:29:11 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA03637 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 01:29:10 +0100 (MET) Received: from xanadu.ece.ucsb.edu (xanadu.ece.ucsb.edu [128.111.56.51]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2I0T9X21659 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2003 01:29:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from ece.ucsb.edu (gimli.ece.ucsb.edu [128.111.56.252]) by xanadu.ece.ucsb.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h2I0T7S03303 for ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 16:29:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 16:28:41 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Subject: Fwd: [Caml-list] Unix.lseek versus Pervasives.pos From: Shivkumar Chandrasekaran To: caml-list@inria.fr Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <9225A464-58D8-11D7-A8F0-000393942C76@ece.ucsb.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) X-Spam: no; 0.00; shivkumar:01 shiv:01 caml-list:01 lseek:01 pervasives:01 bug:01 marshalling:01 largefile:01 --shiv--:01 faq:01 beginner's:01 beginners:01 bin:01 caml-bugs:01 ocaml:01 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Oops! That is pos_out not pos in the message below. BTW, I did further experiments, and this seems to be a bug! The behaviour I reported seems to depend on what exactly I am trying to marshal out. Begin forwarded message: > From: Shivkumar Chandrasekaran > Date: Mon Mar 17, 2003 2:45:42 PM US/Pacific > To: caml-list@inria.fr > Subject: [Caml-list] Unix.lseek versus Pervasives.pos > > Hi, > > Currently I am trying to handle "LargeFiles" while marshalling caml > values and I have run into this incidental problem (nothing to do with > LargeFile). If I open a file with "open_out_bin", write to it using > "output_value" and then try to determine the position in the file > using "pos", I get the correct value. However, if I use Unix.lseek > thus > > Unix.lseek (Unix.descr_of_out_channel fd_out) 0 Unix.SEEK_CUR > > I get a different value (so far always 0) than the one I get from > > pos fd_out > > The manual does not seem to help. Any advice will be appreciated. > Thanks, > > --shiv-- > > ------------------- > To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: > http://caml.inria.fr > Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: > http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ > Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners > --shiv-- ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners