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Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 23:31:01 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: problems with read()
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Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 09:34:40PM -0500, David Johnson wrote:
> >I'm seeing weird problems with read()
> >
> >Below is a simple program that open()'s a file and read()'s 4K at a
> >time until the entire file is read.  Opening the file with different
> >paths seems to produce the problem while other paths have no problem.
> >
> >The first read to the file returns 20-40 bytes of the file and then
> >each read after that returns 0 bytes of the file.
>
> Open the file with the O_BINARY option:
>
> fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY | O_BINARY);

Changing the file to UNIX format would also help.  I.E.: Remove the \r
from the line endings.

Cheers,
Earnie.


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