Nov 25, 2017
Of file handles and implicit offsets
My current research direction (which is wandering a bit, as is common with research) has forced me to look as some of the vagaries of the POSIX interface. One of these is this intriguing decision to incorporate a piece of file descriptor specific state for the “file pointer” (note that in Windows there is an exact equivalent in the CurrentByteOffset of the file handle). One thing to note about…
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