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Re: fseek

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Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:
> Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> writes:
>> James Kuyper wrote:
>
> Not necessarily.
>
> N1570 7.21.2p3:
>
>     A binary stream is an ordered sequence of characters that can
>     transparently record internal data. Data read in from a binary
>     stream shall compare equal to the data that were earlier written
>     out to that stream, under the same implementation. Such a stream
>     may, however, have an implementation-defined number of null
>     characters appended to the end of the stream.
>
> For example, a system might only support binary files consisting of a
> whole number of fixed-size blocks.

Whoops, I goofed when trimming the quoted text.  Here's the context I
*meant* to quote:

Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> writes:
> James Kuyper wrote:
[...]
>> While that will often do precisely what you're expecting it to do, "A
>> binary stream need not meaningfully support fseek calls with a whence
>> value of SEEK_END." (7.21.9.2p3)
>>
>
> Wow - didn't know that. Thanks! Hopefully, it returns  a nonzero
> when it does not apply to that stream.

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fseek Bill Cunningham <billcun@suddenlink.net> - 2012-07-26 19:22 -0700
  Re: fseek cartec69@gmail.com - 2012-07-26 20:46 -0700
    Re: fseek Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-07-26 23:15 -0500
  Re: fseek Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-07-26 23:13 -0500
    Re: fseek James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-07-27 07:20 -0400
      Re: fseek Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-07-27 12:52 -0500
        Re: fseek Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-07-27 16:11 -0700
          Re: fseek Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-07-27 16:54 -0700
            Re: fseek Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-07-27 23:10 -0500
              Re: fseek James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2012-07-28 11:25 -0400
              Re: fseek Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-07-28 17:02 +0100
                Re: fseek Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-07-28 11:39 -0500
                Re: fseek Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-07-28 17:58 +0100
                Re: fseek Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2012-07-28 16:07 -0500
                Re: fseek Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2012-07-28 22:30 +0100
  Re: fseek John Gordon <gordon@panix.com> - 2012-07-27 05:26 +0000
  Re: fseek gordonb.rclzu@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2012-07-27 12:30 -0500
    Re: fseek Bill Cunningham <billcun@suddenlink.net> - 2012-07-27 15:36 -0700
    Re: fseek Bill Cunningham <billcun@suddenlink.net> - 2012-07-27 15:36 -0700

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