From: david@ods.com (David Engel)
Subject: Re: Library 4.1 bug/feature? fopen("fifo","a") fails
Date: 8 Jan 1993 02:05:15 GMT
H.J. Lu (hlu@eecs.wsu.edu) wrote:
: Have you tried my test code? Some Unices just ignore lseek (). FIFO is just
: one type of file, on which lseek cannot be done. We have char devices and
: sockets. I prefer stdio should not know so much details about the kernel.
I tried it under SVR4 and it also reports an error in lseek when run
on a fifo.
David
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