RE: [rtl] SOLUTION TO Possible new problem with older version of fifo

["Dresner, Norman A." <norman_a_dresner@md.northgrum.com>]

The information is 100% correct.  I made the change and rf_put() is now
working exactly as it should.  Thanks for the info

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Steve Papacharalambous [SMTP:stevep@zentropix.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, October 13, 1999 5:35 PM
> To:	Dresner, Norman A.
> Cc:	'RTLinux'; realtime@realtimelinux.org
> Subject:	Re: [rtl] Possible new problem with older version of fifo
> 
> "Dresner, Norman A." wrote:
			[SNIP -- summary: rtf_put is returning zero all the
time]

>  > I'm using RH 5.2 with RTL 0.9J (The Zentropix distribution).  There are
> > three obvious possibilities:
> >         1. My copy of rtf_put() is broken,
> > or      2. There's a subtle bug in my code that I don't see.,
> > or      3. The documentation is wrong about the return value (although a
> > peek at the code says otherwise).
> > 
> > So, my question is, which one is it?
> > 
> >         Thanks
> >                 Norm
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I think that the answer to your question is 1 as there is a bug in this
> version of rtl_fifo.c which has been fixed in later releases of RTLv1.
> 
> If you change the statement:
		 return count;
> to:
		 return written;
> at the end of function rtf_put in rtl_fifo.c this should fix the
> problem.
> 
> Steve Papacharalambous
> 
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