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Re: [BUG] open(): Opening with flags O_RDONLY | O_APPEND positions the file pointer at the end of the file


On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 12:36:13PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 03:39:43PM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
> >Hello, there :)
> >
> >Attached is a testcase which displays the problem. On Linux it will
> >properly return 13, while on cygwin it returns 0.
> >
> >I found this while trying to understand why MC doesn't extract
> >properly files from say .zip files.
> >
> >I don't know exactly why they call O_RDONLY combined with O_APPEND but
> >I will mail the mc-devel list ASAP.
> >
> >Still according to the Linux man page and SUSv2, O_APPEND should be
> >taken into account only when writing to the file.
> >
> >Having in mind that fhandler_base::write() calls SetFilePointer
> >before each write, I wonder why fhandler_disk_base::open calls
> >SetFilePointer when it detects O_APPEND ?
> 
> Good question.

What if

 	fd = open(O_APPEND);
	pos = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR);

?  If open() doesn't move the pointer, `pos' is incorrectly set to 0.

Corinna

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