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Man page for fopen in a+ mode is misleading


From: Joshua Redstone
Subject: Man page for fopen in a+ mode is misleading
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 15:43:19 -0700
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Hi all,

I noticed the fopen man page specifies that fopen in mode "a+"
positions the stream at the end of the file.

I think this is correct with respect to writes.
However, fopen(blah, "a+") followed by ftell() returns 0,
and fopen(blah, "a+") followed by fread() returns data
from the beginning of the file.

Is it possible to have the man page more accurately reflect the
semantics of 'a+'?

Thanks,

Josh Redstone






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