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Re: Reading from the underlying node
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Marcus Brinkmann |
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Re: Reading from the underlying node |
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Mon, 15 Apr 2002 19:52:28 +0200 |
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On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 10:02:35AM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Wolfgang Jährling <wolfgang@pro-linux.de> writes:
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> > I (being a translator) tried to io_read() from my underlying node as
> > returned by fsys_startup(), but I was told that it`s a "Bad file
> > descriptor". What must I do before I can successfully do it?
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> The underlying node is normally provided as opened for neither reading
> nor writing nor execution. You need to do a file_reopen and get
> another descriptor for the mode you want to use.
What is a file_reopen?
Thanks,
Marcus
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