Hi friends,
Hope everybody is fine. First have a look at my code, then we will talk about it.
As you can see I've defined a macro bufsize 1. The value 1 is used for my buffer. My question is, what is the unit of 1, bytes, kilobytes, megabytes? Because, the file that I am reading is very lage, containing thousands of lines, how come it copies that large file into another file. Initially, I had set bufsize as 512, then i set it to 1, still the program works fine, copying the large file into another file.
Could you please help me here?
read and write both use (int file descriptor, memory buffer, size_t bytes) and they return ssize_t bytes read. You DO NOT WANT a 1 byte buffer for read except in very special cases. Modern disks have large fetch buffers, modern filesystems read and write really big chunks. All because it is a more efficient use of resources.
Example: Compellent SAN storage uses a preferred internal block size of 2 MB. The ufs filesystem has a default buffer size of 1MB.
So if you periodically read 1 byte at a time, after a while the rest of the data that came in with your original read request is flushed from the cache and has to be read again.
Look at it this way, you are asking the system to pitch 99.99999% of every read when you request 1 byte, then twiddle your vitrual thumbs for a while. Then come back for byte #2.
I recall a user complaining that a change to the linux kernel reduced the maximum read size to 4 gigabytes. He thought this a large inconvenience for some reason. So whatever the maximum read size is, it's going to be far larger than whatever you're doing...
Of course, it was never safe for him to assume that read() did it all in one go in the first place. Lots of things can happen. You have done correctly by checking read's return value here.
Hi,
Can I find size of the file from size of the buffer written?
nbECRITS = fwrite(strstr(data->buffer, ";") + 1, sizeof(char), (data->buffsize) - LEN_NOM_FIC, fic_sortie);
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