On 12/10/05, Khamis Siksek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear all, ( especially C/C++ coders :-) )
>
> Here is a quick quiz :-)
>
> While I was writing a code to read from a remote filesystem I faced a
> strange issue and I couldn't explain it or find an answer for it (googled
> for around an hour, read man pages, /usr/include/stdio.h and
> /usr/include/libio.h and got nothing)
>
> Remote: remote files mounted using NFS on the local machine.
>
> The thing is like that:
>
> .
> .
> .
> char acBuffer[BLOCK_SIZE + 1] = {0x0};
> int iFileDescriptor = fileno (pfFileHandler);
> clearerr(pfFileHandler);
> while (!feof(pfFileHandler) && !ferror(pfFileHandler))
> {
> int iRet = fread(acBuffer, sizeof(char), sizeof(acBuffer) -
> 1, pfFileHandler);
> //int iRet = read (iFileDescriptor, acBuffer,
> sizeof(acBuffer) - 1);
> printf ("%s\t%d\n", acBuffer, iRet);
> }
> .
> .
> .
> In the first case (fread) it returns always 0 and never reaches EOF since
> the stream pointer never gets updated when trying to access remote files
> while it works on local files properly. In the second case (read) it works
> properly locally and remotely.
>
> please try it, think about it and tell me if you have an explanation for it
> ...
>
> Best regards,
> --
>
> Khamis Siksek
> http://saksoook.blogspot.com
>
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the only logical explanation is that its voodoo, sadly I'm not much
into into wicca and shamanism :(
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