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Diffstat (limited to 'winsup/cygwin/fhandler_tape.cc')
| -rw-r--r-- | winsup/cygwin/fhandler_tape.cc | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_tape.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_tape.cc index 2b6e31705..f7624ad15 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_tape.cc +++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_tape.cc @@ -741,9 +741,12 @@ fhandler_dev_tape::tape_status (struct mtget *get) || (lasterr == ERROR_BUS_RESET)) ; + /* Setting varlen to sizeof DP is by intention, actually! Never set + it to sizeof MP which seems to be more correct but results in a + ERROR_MORE_DATA error at least on W2K. */ if ((lasterr) || (lasterr = GetTapeParameters (get_handle (), GET_TAPE_MEDIA_INFORMATION, - (varlen = sizeof mp, &varlen), + (varlen = sizeof dp, &varlen), &mp))) notape = 1; |