Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/01/20:38:35
Hi Corinna,
(For continued reference:)
>The Tape Block Length information is in MSDN, within the document Q161338
>in the
>knowledge base.
The CygWin read() function calls ReadFile() repeatedly while the programmers
read buffer-length parameter value "#of bytes" hasn't been read from the
handle. Under Unix, low-level IO read() doesn't always return 100 bytes in
this call:
rc = read (h, buf, 100);
In fact, if h refers to a tape, which also has a vaiable-block of data ready
to be read at the current tape position.. You may only get, say, 80 bytes
returned if it's a 80 byte block record. In CygWin, since it continues to
call ReadFile() in the cygwin1.dll read() function, the programmer, me
actually, loses all record of the tapes original data-block-length - with
CygWin read() you might think the block was 100 bytes long - having started
to read the next block on the tape. (20 bytes of it in this example.)
Jason.
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