TASKS and DIRECT_IO, weird data errors

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* TASKS and DIRECT_IO, weird data errors
@ 2001-01-29 22:28 squeaker
  2001-01-30  6:21 ` Robert Dewar
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: squeaker @ 2001-01-29 22:28 UTC (permalink / raw)


i am really at a loss, to why when i copy from one file to another a
character at a time using direct_io i end up getting aload of rubbish in the
file when i load it up in edit, or notepad???, sections of the actual code
appear, or info about the task

thanks to anyone who can help







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* Re: TASKS and DIRECT_IO, weird data errors
  2001-01-29 22:28 TASKS and DIRECT_IO, weird data errors squeaker
@ 2001-01-30  6:21 ` Robert Dewar
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Robert Dewar @ 2001-01-30  6:21 UTC (permalink / raw)

In article
<P8md6.6882$cD2.229397@news2-win.server.ntlworld.com>,
  "squeaker" <squeaker@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> i am really at a loss, to why when i copy from one file to
another a
> character at a time using direct_io i

There is absolutely NO reason to think that Direct_IO can
be used to create a literal copy of a file, and furthermore
it is an appallingly inefficient way of doing things (see
the recent thread on this subject - it has optimization in
the subject line).

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