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RE: Meaning of sysread()
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Horsley Tom
Date:
May 21, 2003 09:04
Subject:
RE: Meaning of sysread()
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F5573A841216B94CB3CD1A7A0A1FD35612E624@exchange.ccur.com
> - sysread() is supposed to be a more direct system read that avoids
> the intermediate layers of processing. This definately includes
STDIO,
> and as far as I am concerned, it definatesly includes filtering.
Which, of course, really means that on win32 it ought to be calling
ReadFile() or ReadFileEx(), not the C library read() function which is
as much a part of stdio on win32 as fread is :-).
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