From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <200110141001.MAA00556@father.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: fgetpos doesn't check ftell's return code
In-Reply-To: <3BC94DFF.69F35BA0@phekda.freeserve.co.uk> from Richard Dawe at "Oct 14, 2001 09:34:07 am"
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Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 12:01:00 +0200 (MET DST)
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According to Richard Dawe:
> One thing that worries me is that ftell could return a negative offset.
> But I think we now use negative off_t to mean the 2GB of >2GB files. So
> maybe this isn't a problem.

You don't need to worry (any more than you've already did). Return
values in [-2^31 - -2] should be interpreted as big positive ones. -1
signals error. (That's one reason why FAT32 only supports file sizes
up to 2^31-2, I suppose.)

> OK to commit?

Looks ok.

(I have not time to run your program in your other post right
now. I'll be back with results perhaps next week-end.)


Right,

						MartinS