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[Karl Heuer]

From:  karl at IMA.IMA.ISC.COM (Karl Heuer)

In article <778 at longway.TIC.COM> henry at 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