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Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File

From James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File
Date 2012-11-09 11:01 -0500
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On 11/09/2012 10:16 AM, John Gordon wrote:
> In <8439d649-fae9-4828-8a86-d0c7c8489aa5@googlegroups.com> felix <ckpradip@gmail.com> writes:
> 
>> static size_t LogSize = 1048576;
> 
>> 	if ( results.st_size > LogSize )
> 
>> It is strange that the condition got satisfied when
>> results.st_size = 2589116.
> 
> You're surprised that 2589116 is greater than 1048576?

No, he's surprised that, when checking this condition periodically,
separated by writes of no more than 100 bytes, that it doesn't trigger
until 2589116. Naively, it could be expected to trigger with
results.st_size no more than 100 bytes larger than LogSize. Buffering is
the simplest of the many reasons invalidating that conclusion; there's
several others, and many people who are better equipped to explain those
issues than I am, so I'll leave that explanation to them, rather than
embarrassing myself by getting it wrong.

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Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File felix <ckpradip@gmail.com> - 2012-11-08 23:09 -0800
  Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File "Where's all the China Blue food?" <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-08 23:26 -0800
  Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-11-09 06:56 -0500
    Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File felix <ckpradip@gmail.com> - 2012-11-12 22:23 -0800
      Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-11-13 07:27 -0500
        Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File felix <ckpradip@gmail.com> - 2012-11-19 01:52 -0800
          Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-11-19 08:09 -0500
  Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-11-09 08:24 -0500
    Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-10 06:06 -0800
      Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-11-10 15:12 +0000
        Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-11 08:40 +1300
          Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-11-10 20:36 +0000
      Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-11-10 10:13 -0500
  Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2012-11-09 15:16 +0000
    Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Mark Bluemel <mark_bluemel@pobox.com> - 2012-11-09 15:56 +0000
    Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-11-09 11:01 -0500
  Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Greg Martin <greg@softsprocket.com> - 2012-11-09 08:59 -0800
  Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2012-11-09 19:42 +0100
    Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-11-09 11:29 -0800
      Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2012-11-09 20:47 +0100
        Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-11-09 12:33 -0800
          Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2012-11-10 02:08 +0100
            Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Philip Lantz <prl@canterey.us> - 2012-11-09 18:33 -0800
              Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2012-11-10 02:58 +0000
                Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Philip Lantz <prl@canterey.us> - 2012-11-09 23:29 -0800
                Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Nick Keighley <nick_keighley_nospam@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-10 06:09 -0800
            Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-11-10 17:46 +1300
              Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-11-10 22:20 -0500
              Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-11-12 14:01 +0200
            Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2012-11-10 22:01 +0000
          Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-11-09 22:14 -0500
            Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-11-09 19:24 -0800
              Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-11-09 23:30 -0500
              Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-11-10 08:32 -0500
                Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Ike Naar <ike@sverige.freeshell.org> - 2012-11-10 17:42 +0000
                Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2012-11-10 15:19 -0500
  Re: Strange Behaviour in finding Size of a File Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-11-09 11:34 -0800

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