Re: [Mingw-users] Missing pread, pwrite

[Antonio D. D. <an...@gn...>]

Keith Marshall wrote:
> its immunity to race conditions when used in conjunction with open(),
> read(), and write() in distinct threads, and its proper handling of
> associated error conditions.

First of all, thanks for the answer, and sorry for the noise. I do not 
write Windows code. I was just forwarding a suggestion made in the 
mailing list of my own project[1].

The implementation I sent is indeed inadequate for general use. I was 
under the false impression that ReadFile/WriteFile were equivalent to 
pread/pwrite, but I have just been told that they are not. They modify 
the file position. They happen to work in plzip because the file is 
opened just once and calls to pread/pwrite are never mixed with calls to 
read/write.

[1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lzip-bug/2016-05/msg00007.html


Thanks for all your good work,
Antonio.