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From: allyn@sdcsvax.UUCP (Allyn Fratkin)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: a question on open() and lseek()
Message-ID: <1727@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 28-Apr-86 22:41:02 EDT
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Posted: Mon Apr 28 22:41:02 1986
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In article <423@ukecc.UUCP>, edward@ukecc.UUCP (Edward C. Bennett) writes:
>
>         #ifdef O_APPEND
>                 f = open( file, O_WRONLY | O_APPEND );
>         #else
>                 f = open( file, O_WRONLY );
>                 lseek( f, 0L, L_XTND );
>         #endif	     ^

In the interests of portability,the 0 should be replaced with 0L in the lseek 
line to make this portable to smaller machines (e.g., machines with
16 bit ints).  Also many machines do not have defines for L_XTND.  
This is the value 2.

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