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Re: fseeko bug


From: Larry Jones
Subject: Re: fseeko bug
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:25:58 -0500 (EST)

Eric Blake writes:
> 
> There are two reasons for fseeko.  One is for platforms that lack it.  But
> the other is for POSIX compliance for the requirement to position the
> underlying fd offset when seeking on input streams (many BSD-based
> implementations only follow the C99 rules, where such behavior is
> undefined; but several GNU programs rely on the POSIX semantics where such
> behavior is well-defined).

Ah, that makes sense.  I had missed that nuance of the POSIX spec.

-Larry Jones

I think my cerebellum just fused. -- Calvin




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