> On 27 Aug 2016, at 1:41 PM, Ken Thomases <k...@codeweavers.com> wrote: > > The reason it has no length property is because not all NSFileHandles have > the concept of a length. For example, a file handle associated with a pipe > or socket.
Right, though for those cases it could just return 0 or some other marker (or throw). > For an on-disk file, you can seekToEndOfFile and get offsetInFile to > determine the file length. If you need to not perturb the file position, you > can record the original offsetInFile and then seekToFileOffset:origOffset to > restore it after measuring the length. After I posted I noticed that -seekToEndOfFile returns the length, and I was calling that anyway (to append to the file), so it was an obvious solution I’d missed. > Matthew Emerson's suggestion of using fstat() with the fileDescriptor is also > reasonable. I was about to head down that path when I noticed the above - thanks for the suggestions anyway, worth knowing for the future. —Graham _______________________________________________ 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
