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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: a couple of random questions
Message-ID: <7713@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 16 Apr 88 13:50:38 GMT
References: <530@vsi.UUCP> <165600037@uiucdcsb>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <165600037@uiucdcsb> kenny@uiucdcsb.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>Doug, did you ever submit the change request on the consideration that
>I outlined in the last paragraph?

I honestly don't recall at this point.
The current dpANS says that fseek() returns 0 for an "improper request"
but doesn't say what that consists of.  I think it's within the rights
of an implementation to say that seeking past EOF is "improper".