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From: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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Subject: Re: 1003.1 section 8.2.3
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Date: 1 Aug 89 15:06:05 GMT
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From: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)

In article <366@longway.TIC.COM> Roland McGrath <roland@ai.mit.edu> writes:
>Can someone please explain everything in section 8.2.3 before section 8.2.3.1
>of 1003.1 to me in English?

This section, which was added very late in the drafting/balloting process,
seems to be trying to say that you can lose synchronization between file
position indicators associated with multiple "handles" (FILEs or fds) on
the same file, and that an explicit seek or fseek is required to restore
the correct implementation-internal file position state.

Volume-Number: Volume 16, Number 62