>>>>> "LT" == Leopold Toetsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
LT> Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> this is another reason to drop seek/tell as separate ops and just add a >> seek offset as an arg to the i/o ops. tell is useless in the aio >> world. the user code needs to manage its own seek location and pass it >> into each call.
LT> Well, yes that's true. OTOH we might want to support "traditional" IO LT> sequence of operations. The aio read and write calls have the file LT> positions as argument, sync read and writes don't have it. It could be LT> useful to support both flavors e.g. for libraries that are called from LT> different HLLs.
i am not against having a sync api but as dan said it should be a wrapper around the async stuff. but as we agree (and dan hasn't acked yet) the aio ops need a seek arg and the seek/tell ops should be dropped
Actually I don't agree, though I'll have to think about it. At the moment I'm leaning towards filehandles maintaining their own position rather than having user code track it.
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