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Re: Error reported dd'ing close of end of block device with skip


On Dec  7 19:35, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Dec  7 11:55, Loh, Joe wrote:
> > QUESTION:  
> > 
> > Is there a way in Cygwin to do a read of a block device using "C" that
> > does not do a read-ahead?  We needed to develop an application that will
> > issue the exact transfer size to the target device as requested.
> > Looking at the strace, it appears that read() less than 61440-bytes gets
> > translated to reading 61440 bytes into buffer and then a subset of that
> > read is returned to the caller.
> 
> There's a non-portable (only Cygwin) way to set the buffer size after
> opening a device:
> 
>   #include <cygwin/rdevio.h>
> 
>   struct rdop rd;
> 
>   fd = open ("dev/sda", ...);
> 
>   rd.rd_op = RDSETBLK;
>   rd.rd_parm = 0;	/* Unbuffered reading */
>   rd.rd_parm = 1;	/* Unbuffered reading */
>   rd.rd_parm = n;	/* Buffered reading with buffer size n */
> 
>   ioctl (fd, RDIOCDOP, &rd);
> 
> Note that the ioctl fails if the buffer already contains data, so ioctl
> should be called before the first read.  Also note that in unbuffered
> mode the usual Windows blocking rule applies, the length given to read
> must be a multiple of 512.
> 
> Sigh, it seems that I introduced a bug into this ioctl also not long ago.
> I fixed this in CVS.  Recent code will probably not work very well when
> setting it to unbuffered mode.  Please wait for the next developers
> snapshot.

I just added another requirement, that rd.rd_parm must be either 0, 1,
or a multiple of 512.  Other sizes for buffers don't make much sense.


Corinna

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