fread a file of unknown size

From	ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	fread a file of unknown size
Date	2015-03-08 14:47 -0400
Organization	PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC
Message-ID	<mdi5g9$9hc$1@reader1.panix.com> (permalink)

Show all headers | View raw

if you use fread to read a file of unknown size with a set buffer size
of say 500 bytes, when you get to the end of the file you are likely to
read a stub of 500 bytes of info and the eof marker.

And fread will not red that block and set and oef that can be read with
feof.  That is how I understand thinga.  So we can either use fseek to
discover the file size and fread accordingly or use fstat?

is this the proper approach?

Ruben

Back to comp.lang.c | Previous | Next — Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

fread a file of unknown size ruben safir <ruben@mrbrklyn.com> - 2015-03-08 14:47 -0400
  Re: fread a file of unknown size Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-03-08 18:59 +0000
    Re: fread a file of unknown size James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-03-08 18:21 -0400
      Re: fread a file of unknown size Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-08 18:43 -0700
    Re: fread a file of unknown size fmassei@gmail.com - 2015-03-08 15:41 -0700
      Re: fread a file of unknown size raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-03-10 16:04 +0000
    Re: fread a file of unknown size Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2015-03-08 18:44 -0400
  Re: fread a file of unknown size jacob navia <jacob@spamsink.net> - 2015-03-08 20:32 +0100
  Re: fread a file of unknown size Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-08 12:48 -0700
  Re: fread a file of unknown size glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-03-08 23:39 +0000
    Re: fread a file of unknown size James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-03-08 20:40 -0400
      Re: fread a file of unknown size glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-03-09 01:24 +0000
        Re: fread a file of unknown size Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-09 07:53 -0700
          Re: fread a file of unknown size glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-03-09 17:36 +0000
            Re: fread a file of unknown size Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-03-09 10:44 -0700
              Re: fread a file of unknown size glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-03-09 20:07 +0000

csiph-web