Stupid Question

[Daniel Phillips]

Can I ask a stupid question: why do we pass a pointer to the file
position along with the file when calling read/write methods as in:

  read(file, buf, count, &file->f_pos)

Is there ever a case when we don't want to use the f_pos from the file
struct?

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Daniel
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