(part 32) Han from China answers your C questions

[George Orwell]

File Seeking / Overwriting bytes

Martien Verbruggen said:

I don't think SEEK_END, which I assume you'd use to position at the end,
is supported on text streams.

And this is, of course, also not right. fseek() does support
SEEK_END on text streams.

If you want to know why, please start a thread on comp.lang.c.
Also, you could read "(part 18) Han from China answers your C questions".

But if you post to comp.lang.c, beware of noise from people who don't
really know the subject well enough, but feel they have to comment
anyway.

Yours,
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George Orwell said:

File Seeking / Overwriting bytes

Martien Verbruggen said:

>I don't think SEEK_END, which I assume you'd use to position at the end,
is supported on text streams.

And this is, of course, also not right.

True enough.

fseek() does support SEEK_END on text streams.

Only partly. You can use SEEK_END to get to the end of a text stream (so
yes, you *can* position at the end), but you can't use it to get N bytes
from the end for N != 0. See 4.9.9.2 of C89.

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