X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4BB482FA.3030201@ltu.se> Date: Thu, 01 Apr 2010 13:26:50 +0200 From: Bengt-Arne Fjellner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: fopen with "a+" does not respect setting file read position to start of file References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On 2010-04-01 11:06 AM, Brebner, Gavin wrote: > We hit a problem in a code, and narrowed it down to a test case that does : > > while (cnt) { > f=fopen(host_file, "a+"); > if (!f) > perror("dup_host_file: Could not open hostfile"); > /* rewind(f); */ > while (cnt) { > int ret=fscanf(f, "%s", line); > if (ret != EOF) { > fprintf(f, "%s\n", line); > cnt--; > dup++; > } > } > fclose(f); > > In earlier versions of cygwin we have, this works fine, however in the recently installed > versions, it no longer works. It seems that fopen(host_file, "a+") is NOT positioning the > read position at the start of the file as it should. Adding an explicit rewind(f) is a > work around. > Well if that worked previously it was a bug. From the manual for fopen: ``a+'' Open for reading and writing. The file is created if it does not exist. The stream is positioned at the end of the file. Subsequent writes to the file will always end up at the then current end of file, irre- spective of any intervening fseek(3) or similar. -- 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