From: "Mark E." <snowball3 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:40:41 -0500
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Subject: Re: zero fill the eof gap (complete patch)
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> > There are two solutions I can think of. One is to add the 
> > call '__set_fd_properties(fd, 0, 0)' to [l]lseek.c to create the structure. 
> > Another is to instead use a flag with '__file_handle_modes'.
> 
> I like the first alternative better, but I'm not sure I understand
> fully how did you envision the second possibility.  Could you please
> elaborate on it?

We need a flag from somewhere, so another way would be to define a flag to be 
used with '__file_handle_modes' and use it in place of the FILE_DESC_ZERO_* 
flag.

Mark