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Date: | Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:19:05 +0000 |
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Subject: | Re: [BUG] fopen(..., "a") does not seek to end of file until some write operation |
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Eric Blake wrote: > According to Salvador Fandino on 11/13/2009 1:36 PM: >> 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. I'm really confused; aren't you saying that there is exactly no difference between opening for append and just opening in ordinary r/w mode? I always thought the positioning of the write pointer immediately after open was the only possible difference there could be. cheers, DaveK -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
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