RE: IFS Open

Thanks Aaron...I'll beware.

On Tue, 3 Aug 2004 13:03:42 -0500, "Bartell, Aaron L. (TC)"
<ALBartell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> To go along with Scott and Joe's comments I am fairly certain you cannot
> use a VARYING field as a parm to a C API.  This is because the first two
> chars of the variable contain it's length and since C doesn't support
> RPG's version of VARYING length fields it thinks those first two bytes
> are part of the file path/name.
> 
> I may be wrong, but I struggled with this some time ago and I think that
> is what I came up with.
> 
> Aaron Bartell
> 
> 
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> Subject: IFS Open
> 
> When using an IFS open like this (I'm using Scott's prototype):
> 
> fd = open('/michael/cattest' : flags);
> 
> all is good. However, when I put the same value in a variable (FileName)
> and use it like this:
> 
> D FileName        S           1024    Varying 
> fd = open(FileName : flags);          
> 
> I receive an fd of -1 and the message "open() for input: No such path or
> directory." I've tried a bunch of different combinations and can't make
> it work.
> 
> Please help the stoopid guy in the corner. You'll fill your random act
> of kindness quotient for the day.
> 
> TIA...
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