From: fox AT cat DOT nyu DOT edu (David Fox)
Subject: Re: lseek past EOF doesn't append zeros under Windows 95
20 Jun 1998 19:36:23 -0700
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To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com
Cc: beshers AT cs DOT columbia DOT edu

David Fox <fox AT cat DOT nyu DOT edu> writes:

> Run this with the argument 100 and you will get a two hundred byte
> file filled with garbage.  Under Unix or cygwin32_nt the first hundred
> bytes will be zero.  Any advice?

Here is a wrapper for lseek that works around this problem:

off_t zlseek(int fildes, off_t offset, int whence)
{
  off_t end = lseek(fildes, 0L, SEEK_END);
  if (end < offset) {
    char buf[offset-end];
    memset(buf, 0, offset - end);
    write(fildes, buf, offset - end);
  }
  return lseek(fildes, offset, whence);
}

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NYU Media Research Lab   fox AT cat DOT nyu DOT edu   baL hcraeseR aideM UYN
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