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• Jedak, Just to note, that is literally just the very first step that you need to take. There are at least six different la...
  By Oren Eini on Implementing a file pager in Zig: Write behind implementation
• Thank you for this series! While in theory I know how a database works it was good to see the details required to keep the d...
  By Jedak on Implementing a file pager in Zig: Write behind implementation
• Andy, The code in the post is the _probelmatic_ version, it isn't fixed. The code assumes that `read_count == BUFFER_LEN`...
  By Oren Eini on Don’t assume the result of read()
• Andy, no I don't think so. In the else block there's a break at the end, which means the code is assuming that if we didn't g...
  By Eluvatar on Don’t assume the result of read()
• Just to confirm that the code shown is the _fixed_ version, yes? The linked article does not include the final `else` block....
  By Andy on Don’t assume the result of read()

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