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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: [fl]seek mechanism
Keywords: file seeks on large files
Message-ID: <10919@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 3 Sep 89 00:05:09 GMT
References: <1631@unccvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1631@unccvax.UUCP> cs00chs@unccvax.UUCP (charles spell) writes:
>lseek(fd, 1L, 1);             -OR-               lseek(fd, 500001L, 0);

The kernel does essentially the same operation in both cases, the only
difference being a miniscule amount af extra arithmetic in the relative-
seek case.  Why are you worrying about such things, anyway?