[Gambas-user] writing large files crashes gambas

[Rob]

I have written (and am currently testing) a program that captures MPEG video 
from my USB capture device.  I let it go while I went to lunch, and when I 
came back it had terminated with signal 27 (I think it was) and the file it 
had created was exactly 2GB.  So I'm thinking Gambas keeps track of how many 
bytes you've written as a signed integer and that 27 is an overflow error.  
The filesystem it was getting written to supports much larger files, of 
course.  I could see raising an error, but the message I got said something 
about terminating unexpectedly and reporting a bug.

Next I'm going to try replacing the Open Filename For Create As Savefile with 
Exec [ "bash", "-c", "cat >" & Savefile ] For Write As Saveprocess and see if 
that's subject to the same issues (I was also operating mplayer over another 
process object and feeding it th same video so I'm guessing it's okay.)

Rob