Eric Blake writes: > > There are two reasons for fseeko. One is for platforms that lack it. But > the other is for POSIX compliance for the requirement to position the > underlying fd offset when seeking on input streams (many BSD-based > implementations only follow the C99 rules, where such behavior is > undefined; but several GNU programs rely on the POSIX semantics where such > behavior is well-defined).
Ah, that makes sense. I had missed that nuance of the POSIX spec. -Larry Jones I think my cerebellum just fused. -- Calvin
