Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 15:49:30 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: read(): varblk tape records... Message-ID: <20040301144930.GO1587@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Mar 1 13:32, Jason Winter wrote: > The NT API 'ReadFile' for reading variable block tape records indicates the > block length by returning only one full-block at a time (per read call) > which isn't being honored by CygWin's read() function. ??? > Can CygWin be changed to detect a *tape* read() call and not continue to > fill the user-buffer after the first ReadFile call returns? I don't understand what you mean, sorry. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/