Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 13:14:47 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Gerhard W. Gruber" <g DOT gruber AT sis DOT co DOT at>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem with read()
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On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Gerhard W. Gruber wrote:

> 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.

Please post the shortest complete program which exhibits this behavior.

> I thought that the standard says that reading beyond the EOF is not an 
> error condition. 

Which standard did you have in mind?  `read' is only standard in Posix, 
ANSI doesn't have it.  I don't have Posix handy, so can you tell what 
does it say in that case?