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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.v7
Subject: fseek on pipe
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Date: Thu, 9-May-85 15:54:19 EDT
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Posted: Thu May  9 15:54:19 1985
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Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Be warned that doing an fseek() on a pipe is not merely useless, it will
confuse stdio and foul up further activity on that file descriptor.  The
only safe thing is to use lseek() first with a zero offset to find out
whether it's really useful/safe to seek on that descriptor.

This bug exists in V7, and may appear in x.yBSD or System N; I haven't
checked.
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				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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