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Date: | Wed, 25 May 94 15:00:21 -0400 |
From: | dj AT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie) |
To: | ericb AT lsid DOT hp DOT com |
Cc: | djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu |
Subject: | Re: Library problems |
> Isn't 512 the true disk blocksize? If not, is 4096 always the correct > value, or does it vary depending on how the disk is layed out? Is > there a way to ask DOS and fill this field in correctly? 512 is the disk block size, but 4096 is the size of the transfer buffer. FILE* accesses are based on st_blksize, so it's set to 4096 to improve performance. BUFSIZ is also set to 4096.
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