Filesize() Function

[Brian K. White]

did my post not make it to the list?

On 5/13/20 1:19 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
> Then that's literally "interrupted system call".
>
> https://www-numi.fnal.gov/offline_software/srt_public_context/WebDocs/Errors/unix_system_errors.html
>
> Technically, this should just involve a call to stat() internally, so
> I'm not sure how it should be failing unless there are issues with
> the filesystem.
>
> If it were a network share, I suppose I could see it happening if the
> connection flaked out.
>
> m->
>
>
> On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 12:41:07PM -0400, William J. McEachran via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>> msgbox ERRNAME( abs(aa) )
>> will tell you the OS error on a negative number
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>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 13 May 2020 at 10:19, Nancy Palmquist via Filepro-list <
>> filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Friends and filePro Experts,
>>>
>>> Does anyone have an idea what it means when I do the following commands?
>>>
>>> aa(8,.0)=Open([Name of file])
>>>
>>> ab(8,.0)=filesize(aa)   'should report the filesize of the opened file
>>> and does most of the time.
>>>
>>> But sometimes I get the value "-4" instead of a positive number of some
>>> kind.
>>>
>>> I expect it might be an error of some kind and if a -4 is possible, can
>>> I expect other negative numbers?
>>>
>>> I would appreciate any insight on this.  I am kind of assuming the file
>>> was not created or something bad like that happened.
>>>
>>> Nancy Palmquist
>>>
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