stdin - seek() issue on Linux.
Donn Cave
donn at drizzle.com
Wed Apr 24 23:08:10 EDT 2002
Quoth pj at engr.sgi.com (Paul Jackson):
| The seek semantics are lower than the stdio package. They are
| found in the semantics of the kernel. Look at the open(2)
| and lseek(2) man pages on most any Unix or Linux or Posix
| emulation thereof.
True, and it's probably not a coincidence, since C and UNIX
are historically related. But C is much more widely supported
than just UNIX or POSIX 1003. Whatever seek means in Python,
it inherits that meaning from C fseek (or whatever 64-bit
alternative the platform supports, fseeko etc.)
Donn Cave, donn at drizzle.com
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