> > Maybe there is something very fundamental that I a missing here. > > Each 8K chunk that is read causes the system to increment its file > > pointer for that open fd. You should not need to call seek() to do > > something the system is already doing for you under the covers. > > > apr_file_t *f = ...; > apr_bucket *a, *b, *c, *d; > > /* split the bucket into hunks of 100 bytes each */ > > a = apr_bucket_file_create(f, 0, len, pool); > b = apr_bucket_split(a, 100); > c = apr_bucket_split(b, 100); > d = apr_bucket_split(c, 100); > > APR_BUCKET_INSERT_AFTER(a, c); > > apr_bucket_destroy(b); > apr_bucket_destroy(d); > > You can't guarantee that consecutive reads from file buckets read from the > "next" spot in the file. In fact, they very frequently jump around.
Give me a common example of reads from file buckets jumping around. Bill
