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Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:33:08 -0600 (CST)
From: Tim McDaniel <tmcd AT panix DOT com>
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Subject: Re: fstream - problem with reading/writing to file
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Pavel Kudrna <Pavel DOT Kudrna AT mff DOT cuni DOT cz> wrote:
> I have found problem with read and write to file using fstream. The
> following example opens existing file for read+write, separately
> writes "Hello" and " world!" and in between it tries to read one
> character from the file. The problem is that without call to seekg()
> or tellg() the read fails and without seekp() or tellp() the second
> write of " world!" to the file fails too.  The same program works on
> linux with gcc 3.2.2.

I'm pretty sure that at least the C standard for stdio said that,
between a read and a write (and the reverse), it was necessary to do a
seek on the file.  But I don't have a citation for that, and I don't
know much about C++ I/O to know what rules exist there.  I only
mention this in case it might prompt someone else who knows where to
look.

-- 
Tim McDaniel, tmcd AT panix DOT com

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