On Mar 16 02:09, Jason Winter wrote: > Hi Corinna, > > >Are you talking about the values in mt_gstat? See below. > > This mailing list rejects emails that contain source code (which isn't > 'attached' in a different file) so I can't easily show you what I mean: > > Function 'tape_status' in 'fhandler_tape.cc' uses 'not' mt_blkno to see if > it's past the beg.of.tape, but it only updates that variable when function > 'tape_get_pos' is called. It isn't called when 'FeaturesLow' doesn't have > the TAPE_DRIVE_GET_ABSOLUTE_BLK bit set, which happens when my tape drive > is busy and you request function 'GetTapeParameters'. If you cache that > feature bit from when the drive wasn't busy, then you know you can call > 'tape_get_pos' even when the tape is busy and the feature can't be read > (dynamically, as it is now.)
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