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From: Alain Magloire <alainm AT rcsm DOT ece DOT mcgill DOT ca>
Message-Id: <199910241843.OAA27516@mccoy2.ECE.McGill.CA>
Subject: Re: Bug in fsetpos()?
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 14:43:17 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.991024093353.29385M-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Oct 24, 99 09:34:20 am
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Bonjour M. Eli Zaretskii

> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Alain Magloire wrote:
> 
> > I don't think this is a bug, fsetpos() returns 0 if it succeeds otherwise
> > it returns a non-zero value and sets errno to indicate the error.
> 
> Right.  But if fseek returns -1, that surely counts as a failure,
> right?  So ignoring the return value of fseek *is* a bug, since that
> makes fsetpos return zero when in fact it failed.
> 

Yes, apologies to Richard for not reading is post correctly.

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au revoir, alain
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