Re: gnome_vfs_read returns EOF when requesting zero bytes

[Mathieu Lacage <mathieu_lacage myrealbox com>]

On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 08:59 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> 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.

yes. I believe the semantics are that EOF is raised only when you try to
read past the end of the file.

Mathieu
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