Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:10:54 -0500 From: Christopher Weimann <csw@k12hq.com> To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: execl bug? Message-ID: <20041230011054.GC31984@smtp.k12us.com> In-Reply-To: <20041230001043.GA88403@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20041229230521.GB31984@smtp.k12us.com> <20041230001043.GA88403@dan.emsphone.com>
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On 12/29/2004-06:10PM, Dan Nelson wrote: > > I think your problem here is with rewind(). There's nothing that says > it has to change the underlying filedescriptor; FreeBSD's fseek code > knows that the beginning of the file is still within its stdio buffer, > so it simply resets the seek offset in the FILE* back to zero. See the > code in /usr/src/lib/libc/stdio/fseek.c . Replacing your rewind() with > an lseek(0,0,SEEK_SET) makes the program work. > > -- > Dan Nelson > dnelson@allantgroup.com > Perfect! It works, and it even makes sense to me :) Thank you! --
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