[Openais] possibly bug in saCkptCheckpointRead()

[Steven Dake]

Maxi

Patch attached to fix the problem.

On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 15:29 -0300, Maxi Combina wrote:
> > > The questions are:
> > > 1.- Have I missunderstood the SAF? Or is this bug of openais?
> > 
> > thanks for the bug report.  this is a bug in openais.  I'll post a patch
> > today.
> you are welcome.
> 
> > 
> > > 2.- If I did not understand the SAF correctly, which is the way to
> > > ensure that Read() has effectively read the requested amount of bytes?
> > > (indicated in the field `dataSize')
> > >
> > openais will read as much of the checkpoint as is available.  I suspect
> > the only time datasize could be shorter then the read request is when an
> > offset is read on a small checkpoint with a larger buffer.
> 
> mmmm... `dataSize' and `read request' are the same thing...
> are you talking about `readSize' and `read request'? I woul appreciate
> if you can clarify a bit more the above explanation
> 

sorry I meant readSize.  So basically readSize can be short if section
size - read offset > dataSize.  In this case, readSize is limited to the
lesser of those two arguments.

regards
-steve

> Regards,
> Maxi
> 
> 
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