On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 16:40 -0700, Eric Blake wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Alan Hourihane on 2/28/2009 4:31 PM: > >> I'll change things around now. > > > > The above is a little unfair as FreeMiNT has problems seeking beyond the > > end of stdin, so I had to modify the test to remove that final check. > > Unfair or not, POSIX requires it: > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fseek.html > > "The fseek() function shall allow the file-position indicator to be set > beyond the end of existing data in the file. If data is later written at > this point, subsequent reads of data in the gap shall return bytes with > the value 0 until data is actually written into the gap."
I know. It's a kernel issue that needs dealing with, but for now we're failing that part. Just informing you guys of the current problem. That's all. Alan.
