Changeset 23047 in vbox for trunk/include

Timestamp:

Sep 15, 2009 9:29:15 PM (15 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

Message:

Fix RTFILE_O_NO_CACHE on Windows. Document that FILE_APPEND_DATA is disabled and how to workaround it

File:

• trunk/include/iprt/file.h (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/include/iprt/file.h

@@ -174 +174 @@
  *          http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc644950(VS.85).aspx ).
  *          The buffer address, the transfer size and offset needs to be
- *          aligned to the sector size of the volume.
+ *          aligned to the sector size of the volume. Furthermore FILE_APPEND_DATA
+ *          is disabled. To write beyond the size of file use RTFileSetSize prior
+ *          writing the data to the file.
+ *
+ *          This flag does not work on Solaris if the target filesystem is ZFS. RTFileOpen will return an
+ *          error with that configuration. When used with UFS the same alginment restrictions
+ *          apply like Linux and Windows.
  *
  * @remarks This might not be implemented on all platforms,