curl-library
Re: Seek function
Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:00:33 +0100 (CET)
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Georg Lippitsch wrote:
>> This patch doesn't apply against current CVS, can you please make it do so?
> OK, I wrote it using 7.17.1, but will try to rewrite using lates CVS.
Thanks. If using CVS isn't an option for you, just get a recent daily
snapshot!
> I think one advantage of this function is that it has the same signature as
> fseek. Users can easily write a wrapper around it or even point to it
> directly (at least on some systems), as curl already does with read/write
> functions. This was also the reason for using SEEK_SET directly instead of
> defining CURL_SEEK_SET. Personally I don't care whether there is a an
> 'origin' argument, but beeing consistent with fseek is IMO not a bad idea.
Yeah, let's keep it this way. With it being lseek-alike we should probably use
SEEK_SET also, so that most implementations can just pass the arguments as-is
to lseek().
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