On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 22:32 +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi hackers@, > Do we have C libraries with reverse of getchar() [ & maybe read() > ] & fopen() [ & maybe open() ] etc, to read from end of file toward > beginning ?
`tail -r' will spit out lines of a file in reverse-order. Maybe the source to tail(1) can offer some insights: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/tail/ -- Devin P.S. Sorry for the non-answer. > I dont see anything in the See Also sections. I'm not > looking to write, just read. I'm looking for something that returns > last char in file as first etc, I'm not interested in wchars etc, > I could write some C functions, with seek etc & probably will, if > none exist, but no point if they already exist ? > > Cheers, > Julian _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
