Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 10:14:55 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Driver Changes Proposed: Tape Early Warning Behaviour Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9812141013080.2563-100000@feral-gw> In-Reply-To: <199812141807.SAA17001@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
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Oh *nooooooo*- I went through a very long discussion in NetBSD over this.. I guess I should rewrite that paragraph to make it clearer..... Yes- the count returned to the user application is the number of bytes successfully written. On Mon, 14 Dec 1998, Richard Tobin wrote: > Just a nit about terminology: > > > If the write completing didn't transfer all data that was requested, then > > the residual count is returned to the user application. > > Surely the "residual count" is the number of bytes *not* written, whereas > what is returned to the user is the number successfully written. > > -- Richard > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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