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Date:	Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:41:14 -0700
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According to Salvador Fandino on 11/13/2009 1:36 PM:
> Hii
> 
> Using ftell() after fopen(..., "a") returns 0 even when the file open for appending is not empty. AFAIK, it should return the size of the file.

Not a bug.  POSIX allows this behavior, and Linux does it as well.  POSIX
also allows BSD behavior of seeking to the end, although this is less
friendly to reading back a file opened with fopen(...,"a+").  So portable
programs can't expect either situation, and you MUST use fseek when
opening for append if you expect a particular position.

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