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On Sat, Jan 19, 2002 at 11:25:07AM +0100, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes: > > > Before anybody gets more excited about this, I have modifications > > which don't require setting the file position to the end. The reason > > I can live with this is that some more functions get simplified. I > > didn't do it initially this way since the extra code isn't justified > > by the little bit of speed gain. > > Fine. > > > In general, it is not acceptable that positive development is hindered > > by broken code. There never ever was any document saying that the > > file position is such and such after fopen. People relying on it are > > simply wrong. And even though this code might now survive sometime > > longer it does not mean it should not be fixed. > > How should the broken code get fixed? Can you just describe it > priefly - and I'll try to fix at least ld... fflush will move the kernel file position to the current read position. Jakub
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