Re: [MP3 ENCODER] lame 3.36beta

[Monty]

> Hi Everyone,
> 
> 3.36beta is up on the web page.  Mostly portability updates, but I
> also changed all the fseek()'s to fread()'s.  This was because (at
> least on my RH5.0 linux system) fseek() would fail when the input file
> was a pipe, but fread() works just fine.  Both fread and fseek seem to
> work fine when stdin is redirected with "<".  Anyone know what the
> story is about this?

A pipe is not seekable (everyone already knows this).  Redirection makes stdin/
out/err a file handle open on the actual file (just as if you'd called open(),
which is pretty much what the shell does).  

Monty


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