Re: gnome_vfs_read returns EOF when requesting zero bytes

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 17:26 +0100, Johan Ersvik wrote:
> Hi,
> I noticed that the call gnome_vfs_read(handle, buffer, 0, &nchars)
> returns GNOME_VFS_ERROR_EOF. Is this on purpose or just a boundary case
> that has gone unnoticed? The documentation didn't clear things up much
> either. Rather it implies that the above call should return
> GNOME_VFS_OK.

I  consider this a bug. 

However, in the case where we have actually reached EOF, what should it
return then? I guess returning GNOME_VFS_OK in this case is ok too,
since you might say the operation succeeds before "reaching" the end of
the file.

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