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Re: [BUG] fopen(..., "a") does not seek to end of file until some write operation
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According to Salvador Fandino on 11/13/2009 1:55 PM:
>> Not a bug. POSIX allows this behavior, and Linux does it as well.
>
> In Linux (at least on the one I have installed, Ubuntu 9.10) ftell does not return cero but the EOF offset:
Ok, so "a" and "a+" apparently behave differently in Linux. Submit a
patch to newlib if it bothers you. Still, the point remains that this
does not violate POSIX. Also, since the underlying open() is _required_
to be at offset 0 when opening a file for appending, it is actually _more_
syscalls if stdio seeks to the end of an append stream during fopen(),
rather than waiting until the first write.
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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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