Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:22:01 +0200
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Subject: Re: zero fill the eof gap (complete patch)
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> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 09:29:40 -0500
> From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
> > 
> > I think you should simply return zero here: it doesn't make sense to
> > zero-fill gaps in writes to terminal devices.
> 
> The flag is only set if a non-beginning lseek *succeeds*.  Can that
> happen for non-real-files?

IIRC, an lseek on a terminal always succeeds (but does nothing).
(That's why fseeking stdin is one way of getting the effect of
emptying the buffered data, like Borland's fflush(stdin) does.)