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- From: karl@IMA.IMA.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)
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- In article <778@longway.TIC.COM> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes:
- >As for what it means to seek on a network endpoint, exactly the same as it
- >means to seek on a tty: probably nothing.
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- Better yet, it should return an error (like an attempt to seek on a pipe). I
- don't think there's any excuse for tty seek having been defined as a no-op in
- the first place; it's too bad POSIX didn't require this to be fixed. (Is
- there any reliable way to tell whether a given fd is seekable?)
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- Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 98
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