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Re: fread a file of unknown size

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On 03/08/2015 02:59 PM, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> On 08/03/15 18:47, ruben safir wrote:
>> 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
> 
> fread ought to return the number of bytes read. Instead, it returns the 
> number of blocks. I expect there was a good reason once.

I gather that there are systems, or at least particular devices on some
systems, where the number of bytes read will always be a multiple of a
block size characteristic of that device.

Even on systems where that is not true, if the file I'm reading has a
fixed record size, a valid read from an undamaged file will always read
in an integer number of records, so it still makes sense.
-- 
James Kuyper

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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

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