> On Aug 26, 2016, at 8:19 PM, Graham Cox <graham....@bigpond.com> wrote: > Apparently a simple task, but no obvious API for it: getting the length > (size) of a file I have a NSFileHandle for. This class has no -length > property, so how can I get it? > > I need to know because I have a requirement to create a backup copy of a file > once it exceeds a certain size. This backup is created when I first open the > file as a NSFileHandle. I can read the content of the file and find out the > size that way, but I’d rather not first read it into memory if I’m just going > to create my backup copy and then start over with an empty file - reading it > all in just to find the length seems a bit wrong, is all.
Seems reasonable enough. You may need to use the Unix C api, fstat() defined in <sys/stat.h>. See the man page for that. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
