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Article #350Re: Standards Update, Recent Standards Activities
From: Karl Heuer
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 1990 13:26
Date: Thu, 05 Jul 1990 13:26
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From: karl@IMA.IMA.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer) In article <778@longway.TIC.COM> henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) writes: >As for what it means to seek on a network endpoint, exactly the same as it >means to seek on a tty: probably nothing. Better yet, it should return an error (like an attempt to seek on a pipe). I don't think there's any excuse for tty seek having been defined as a no-op in the first place; it's too bad POSIX didn't require this to be fixed. (Is there any reliable way to tell whether a given fd is seekable?) Volume-Number: Volume 20, Number 98
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!longway!std-unix From: karl@IMA.IMA.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer) Newsgroups: comp.std.unix Subject: Re: Standards Update, Recent Standards Activities Message-ID: <784@longway.TIC.COM> Date: 5 Jul 90 13:26:58 GMT Sender: std-unix@longway.TIC.COM Reply-To: karl@IMA.IMA.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer) Organization: Interactive Systems, Cambridge, MA 02138-5302 Lines: 12 Approved: jsq@longway.tic.com (Moderator, John S. Quarterman)