[m-rev.] for review: more specific errors when file sizes exceed maximum buffer sizes

[Julien Fischer]

Hi Peter,

On Mon, 28 Oct 2019, Peter Wang wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 13:33:25 +1100 (AEDT), Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On second thought, why throw an exception instead of returning an error?
>>
>> Doing so would break the existing interface; there isn't currently a
>> slot to return such an error.
>
> I think io.error is fine.

You're right.  I thought io.error was the error code rather than a
string.

Julien.