[linux-dvb] Re: EOVERFLOW with section filter

[Clemens Kirchgatterer <clemens@thf.ath.cx>]

Johannes Stezenbach <js@convergence.de> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 01:40:04PM +0100, Clemens Kirchgatterer wrote:
> > man(2) read:
> > 
> [snip]
> 
> Regardless what manual pages or POSIX say, the driver implements
> read() for section filters in such a way that you get either
> a full section, or nothing -- provided that the buffer you pass
> to read() is large enough for the section (else you will get
> partial sections, but never the end of one section and the start
> of the next section in one read).

ahh, ok. that was what i was looking after. i really should dig deaper
into the kernel to get better understanding how i/o works in general.

thx ...
clemens


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