[Mono-dev] WindowsBase in mcs

[Alan McGovern]

Also,

If you're actually writing the package to disk, you need free space == size
(package) * 2 as you will have to store a temporary full copy of the package
as well as the final copy.

Alan.

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:01 PM, Alan McGovern <alan.mcgovern at gmail.com>wrote:

> The only other option is for there to be a place on disk which is:
>
> A) Guaranteed to be writable
> B) Guaranteed to have enough space to create the package.
>
> If those guarantees can be given, I'll gladly make the change. If they
> can't, then I don't want to completely break this API just to save memory.
>
> Alan.
>
>
> On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Paolo Molaro <lupus at ximian.com> wrote:
>
>> On 11/06/08 Alan McGovern wrote:
>> > However this use case is likely to never be hit in System.IO.Packaging.
>> The
>> > API requires that when you 'write' data to a zip archive, the data is
>> also
>> > kept in memory. If you did try to use a 2gb file with this API, you'd
>> end up
>> > trying to allocate a 2gb block of memory.
>>
>> There is no requirement in the API that data is kept in memory, this bug
>> needs to be fixed, if you don't know how, at least file a bug report in
>> bugzilla so we don't forget about it.
>>
>> lupus
>>
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