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From: richard@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: /dev/drum on Sun
Message-ID: <268@aiva.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Mar 88 22:18:19 GMT
Reply-To: richard@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
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If I try to read, say, 1000 bytes from /dev/drum under Sun O.S. 3.2, the
read returns 1024, and 1024 bytes have indeed been read in, overwriting
whatever was there.  Is this a bug?  Neither read(2) nor drum(4) mentions
this possibility.
-- 
Richard Tobin,                         JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed             
AI Applications Institute,             ARPA:  R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk
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