OpenEuphoria

Re: Checking file integrity

• Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Apr 22, 2003
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rforno at tutopia.com wrote:
> Wouldn't be it possible for Euphoria to return an error report in such a
> case, for example with a negative number different from -1 (EOF)?
> Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the OS has a variable called errno (under C)
> that can be accessed by the user. Couldn't it be used to that end?

I'm not aware of any test that I could make that would
detect an error on the disk media. Even if there were
such a test, would it be worth wasting a couple of machine
cycles on *every* byte read by *every* program?

I believe that each disk sector has a checksum on it.
Perhaps your "Nero" program sees if the checksum is correct.

I would have thought that the O/S would complain loudly
if a sector were bad (i.e. bad checksum).

Regards,
    Rob Craig
    Rapid Deployment Software
    http://www.RapidEuphoria.com