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Re: fopen + mmap

From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot de>
To: drepper at redhat dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 11:25:07 +0100
Subject: Re: fopen + mmap
References: <m3ofjqzm5u.fsf@myware.mynet>

Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

> Before anybody gets more excited about this, I have modifications
> which don't require setting the file position to the end.  The reason
> I can live with this is that some more functions get simplified.  I
> didn't do it initially this way since the extra code isn't justified
> by the little bit of speed gain.

Fine.

> In general, it is not acceptable that positive development is hindered
> by broken code.  There never ever was any document saying that the
> file position is such and such after fopen.  People relying on it are
> simply wrong.  And even though this code might now survive sometime
> longer it does not mean it should not be fixed.

How should the broken code get fixed?  Can you just describe it
priefly - and I'll try to fix at least ld...

Andreas
-- 
 Andreas Jaeger
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Follow-Ups:
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