From:	"Gerhard W. Gruber" <g DOT gruber AT sis DOT co DOT at>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Problem with read()
Date:	Mon, 27 Apr 1998 09:59:39 +0200
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I'm not sure if this is an error in the standard library or if the
behaviour in this case is not exactly defined.

I'm trying to read a file into memory. My buffer to read in is 4096 bytes
long and the file is 10 bytes long.

I seek to position 5 of the file and call read with read(hdl, buffer,
4096). The result of read should be the number of bytes actually read or -1
if an error occured. In this case it should return 5 bytes, because the
remainder of the file is 5 bytes, but I get -1.

Is this an error or is this behaviour correct? I never encountered this
problem with other compilers and I thought that the standard says that
reading beyond the EOF is not an error condition.
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Bye,
   Gerhard

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