Sorry, I meant to say Hi Paui,

On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:29 PM, Dave Hylands <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Jack,
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 3:22 PM, Paul Tan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Thanks, I'll try to see if there is a difference with libsoc or not.
>>  However, I did manage to get it working with low level unix i/o (open,
>> write) instead of the buffered stream i/o (fopen, fwrite).  It works
>> correctly, I didn't need a seek operation, and I was able to get pulse
>> widths down to 10uS reliably.  Interesting difference though: fwrite
>> to "/sys/class/gpio/export" succeeds even if GPIO30 was already exported,
>> but write to "/sys/class/gpio/export" fails if GPIO30 was already exported.
>>
>
> That's because fwrite is using buffered I/O. If you put the FILE * in
> unbuffered mode then you'd find that it would fail too. By default, files
> opened with fopen are fully buffered. The buffer size typically around 4K
> or so, and the operations that will trigger flusing that data are normally
> things like fseek, fread, fflush, or the buffer getting full. The operation
> which actually triggers the low-level write will be the one that fails.
>
>
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Dave Hylands
Shuswap, BC, Canada
http://www.davehylands.com

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