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Author pitrou
Recipients pitrou
Date 2010-08-15.17:25:40
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Modules/_io/fileio.c assumes that read() and write() allow a Py_ssize_t length, but under Windows the length is an int, limiting chunk size to 2GB.

It should be easy enough to read or write in multiple chunks, although testing might be difficult.
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