[fpc-pascal] buffered filestream

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Mattias Gaertner wrote:

> On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:24:14 +0200
> Mattias Gaertner <nc-gaertnma at netcologne.de> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:54:30 +0200 (CEST)
>> Michael Van Canneyt <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> [...]
>>> It is even documented on
>>>
>>> http://www.freepascal.org/docs-html/fcl/bufstream/index.html
>>>
>>> Amazing, don't you think  ? ;-)
>>
>> The fpc sources are always amazing.
>
> Maybe I miss something:
>
> TReadBufStream.Seek calls FakeSeekForward, which calls Discard, which
> reads everything up to the position.
> This is the right solution for pipes and small files, but for big files
> I need a real Seek.
>
> Can TReadBufStream be extended with a property or should I create a new
> class?

Feel free to extend the existing classes. The classes are by no means set in stone...

They did the job for me, but use cases vary...

Michael.