Re: [boost] Re: A library: out-of-core containers and algorithms (a job for boost::iostreams)

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-17 21:27:30

At 10:01 AM 2/8/2005, christopher diggins wrote:

 >I stand corrected. I made that assumption based on the partition limits 
on
 >certain filesystems.

It is confusing because as Roman Dementiev pointed out, even though the 
Windows API has supported large files for a long time, some older versions 
of that operating system may not implement the functionality, particularly 
if they only supported file systems which were limited to smaller files.

I'd hate to see otherwise useful Boost code held back because it didn't 
support large files on systems which don't normally support large amounts 
of data anyhow.

--Beman