In article <mailman.510.1365755188.3114.python-l...@python.org>, Cameron Simpson <c...@zip.com.au> wrote:
> 45046 is exactly 11 * 4096. I'd say your I/O is using 4KB blocks, > and the last partial block (to make it up to 47970) didn't get > written (at the OS level). Yeah, this sounds like a good diagnosis. BTW, the dtruss command I recommended in my earlier post would confirm this. But, to be honest, it's such a likely scenario that it hardly needs confirmation. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list