-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 5/28/2007 7:55 AM: > Thanks for explaining. I thought you were talking about the lseek call > inside fflush, not about an lseek call before it. > > Since loss of data is a severe condition, I'm adding a note about it:
Thanks. > + output and seekable input streams are supported. > + Note! LOSS OF DATA can occur if fflush is applied on an input stream > + that is _not_seekable_ or on an update stream that is _not_seekable_ > + and in which the most recent operation was input. Seekability can > + be tested with lseek(fileno(fp),0,SEEK_CUR). */ Do we want to offer ftello(fp) as the shorter alternative to lseek(fileno(fp),0,SEEK_CUR) for testing seekability? Furthermore, it would allow a user application to get by with only <stdio.h> instead of also needing <unistd.h>. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGWu9B84KuGfSFAYARAmxCAJ0bJWdDUa1DrBLpDN5rV7hE+9JCFACfSix0 Nx0Vea5YykytNZtqeJCP3HQ= =E7EP -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
