[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
Re: gzipped data files
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Re: gzipped data files |
Date: |
Mon, 2 May 2005 14:19:19 -0400 |
On 2-May-2005, David Bateman wrote:
| I notice that in your patch all of the seek code is disabled... The
| seeking in a read-only file should work find, in a write-only file
| seeking in a forward direction should work, and you can't have a gzipped
| file open for both reading and writing at the same time.. These are
| limitations of zlib and normal ones and the implication of implying
| these features means that a buffer containing all of the data written to
| the file would be needed so that the gzipped file could be searched
| backwards, etc...
OK, if I've missed something or misunderstood what do do with gzipped
files, please suggest patches.
Thanks,
jwe