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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: unix question: files per directory
Keywords: how many can there be?
Message-ID: <3823@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 12 Apr 89 16:21:29 GMT
References: <24110@beta.lanl.gov> <8420@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
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In article <8420@xanth.cs.odu.edu>, kremer@cs.odu.edu (Lloyd Kremer) writes:
> And it doesn't make sense to have a negative offset into a file.  The
> only exception that comes to mind is that of returning an error code from
> a function like lseek()...

Speaking of lseek, how about this case:

	lseek(fd, -1024L, 2);	/* Seek to last 1K of file */

It would negatively impact the performance of tail(1) to not have this
ability.
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