[EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
> Perry shoots from the hip and as usual straight into his foot.
>
> There are certainly no sparse files creatable with fseek and friends
> on IRIX 4.
To my knowledge, holes have been in all "real" Unixes since V7 or
earlier.
By the way, fseek isn't a system call. LSEEK is the system call.
fseek is just a part of the stdio library.
Irix is based on SVR4 -- it was not written from scratch by SGI. Every
SVR4 box, indeed, every unix box I have used has had holes in files. I
will admit to not having explicitly checked this particular feature on
an SGI, but unless SGI has been removing documented SVID functionality
for some reason, you are wrong.
I will, of course, happily conceed to a reposting of a section of man
page that explicitly states that the functionality has been removed.
Perry
