Well, what I was saying is that you can fetch any number of bytes using sysread(). You can fetch just one byte or you can read the entire file with one call. But behind the scenes, Windows does a lot of buffering. So, instead of just reading 512 bytes of a file, it reads an entire cluster. That may be 4KB or 32KB...whatever the size of the cluster. Sysread() will give you 512 or 513 bytes, if that's what you requested, but the OS will read more, because that's how the system is designed.

In reply to Re^3: Perl reads minimum 8KB from files. Can this be lowered? by harangzsolt33
in thread Perl reads minimum 8KB from files. Can this be lowered? by sectokia

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