On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:32:46PM +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 ? 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 ?
Use lseek() to position yourself, iterate over the file, copying into a small buffer, then iterate over your buffer in reverse? Maybe I misunderstood you... > Cheers, > Julian -- Brian Reichert <reich...@numachi.com> 55 Crystal Ave. #286 Derry NH 03038-1725 USA BSD admin/developer at large _______________________________________________ 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"
