From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 14 10:15:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA20748 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 10:15:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral-gw.feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA20742 for ; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 10:15:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral-gw.feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA02910; Mon, 14 Dec 1998 10:14:55 -0800 Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 10:14:55 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Richard Tobin cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tape Driver Changes Proposed: Tape Early Warning Behaviour In-Reply-To: <199812141807.SAA17001@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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