From: Oliver <python152@...>
Date: 2006-11-02T23:50:17+09:00
Subject: Re: file size revisit

Hi Park -

thanks for the suggestion. With this redefined function, it works fine
on windows now.
why it is not the case with win32/file, and how can I make it work
cross the platform?

Regards,

-Oliver

On Nov 2, 1:11 am, "Park Heesob" <phasi...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>
> >From: python...@gmail.com
> >Reply-To: ruby-t...@ruby-lang.org
> >To: ruby-t...@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
> >Subject: file size revisit
> >Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:40:06 +0900
>
> >Hi, folks
>
> >the subject has been reported before, basically, ruby File.size() won't
> >work properly on windows when file size exceed certain limit (2GB
> >maybe). One workaround is to require win32/file. Yes, this will get you
> >correct file, however, this will break the code (in my case, the find
> >module) ... the previous recursive scan of file system stop
> >functioning. The question is, is there a more "generic" or "elegant"
> >way of getting correct file size on both *nix and windows?
>
> >thanks
>
> >-OliverAs the another workaround in windows, try this:
>
> require 'Win32API'
> def File.size(name)
>   buf = "\0"*36
>   Win32API.new('kernel32','GetFileAttributesEx','PLP','L').call(name,0,buf)
>   (buf[28,4].unpack("L").first << 32) + buf[32,4].unpack("L").first
> end
>
> Regards,
>
> Park Heesob
>
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