From: "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
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Subject: Re: Possibly bug in fseek()
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 16:53:49 -0400
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Michael Mauch wrote:
On Tue, 01 Jul 1997 16:01:41 -0400, "A. Sinan Unur" <asu1 AT cornell DOT edu>
wrote:

>> this is what the ANSI standard says (according to an excerpt on p.249 
>> of Plauger's "The Standard C Library")

>> A binary stream need not meaningfully support fseek calls with a 
>> whence value of SEEK_END.
> 
> So, given that the DJGPP implementation of binary streams does "not
> meaningfully support fseek", shouldn't fseek() then always fail for 
> this "request that cannot be satisfied", i.e. using SEEK_END on binary
> streams?

nobody said that djgpp did not support SEEK_END meaningfully. i was just
pointing out a potential portability problem with your code.

>> The fseek function returns nonzero only for a request that cannot be
>> satisfied.
>> compare the first line of your post with this information.
> 
> Hmm, you don't mean the "Hi!", do you?  ;-)

no. i meant the line where you wrote:

fseek() in DJGPP v2.01 seems to have a bug: it returns 0 for success
when it should not:

basically, you need to have a clearer understanding of what you want to
do, what fseek can portably do and what fseek provided by djgpp actually
does before saying you have found a bug.
-- 
   Sinan
 
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