Tom wrote:

> David Levine <[email protected]> writes:
> > After the file is opened and read, it's lseek'd.  Is (or
> > was) it necessary, or advised, to do an fseek between the
> > subsequent fdopen and ftell?
> 
> "Opened and read"?  I thought you said w+ ...

I got the sequence wrong above.  It is: open, lseek, read.

> If it is read/write, I seem to recall that fseek is
> advised when switching between read and write modes.  This
> may just be protecting against bugs in ancient stdio
> libraries, but ...

OK, thanks for the explanation.

David

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