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Is it just me, or do others get wierd results sometimes when reading (::read, ::fioRead etc.) from files on a MC. The opens always seem to work, but some files just return 0 bytes on a read (although the directory has the correct length).

I'm using MCMAN if that makes any difference...

Maybe you should try XMCMAN. I noticed a few differences between the two, which are quite significant. For example, one can open files using MCMAN which filename contains "\", whereas you can't using XMCMAN.

I haven't really noticed it so much, but supposedly fio is a bit flakey. Have you tried using MCOpen, etc. ?

Haven't used mcopen in this instance-- can't easily because of the nature of the code (higher layers don't know where the file may reside so they just issue an open...).

As for XMCMAN, where does one get one (the IRXs I mean).

personally, I like fio better because for some reason, when I have to write a few files consecutively, when I had a routine that used libmc the first file in the group was never closed, even though all necessary mcclose and mc sync calls were made. At least I think that was the problem. It was undeleteable until after reboot and had 0 filesize.

tjd wrote: As for XMCMAN, where does one get one (the IRXs I mean).

SifLoadModule("rom0:XMCMAN", 0, NULL);