misc/50825: lseek to negative file positions screws up flags

Dirk Engling erdgeist at erdgeist.org
Sat Apr 12 06:00:31 PDT 2003


The following reply was made to PR misc/50825; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dirk Engling <erdgeist at erdgeist.org>
To: David Taylor <davidt at yadt.co.uk>
Cc: <FreeBSD-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: misc/50825: lseek to negative file positions screws up flags
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 14:53:03 +0200 (CEST)

 On Sat, 12 Apr 2003, David Taylor wrote:
 
 > Replacing the above line with:
 >
 >       int a = open( "testfile", O_CREAT | O_RDWR, 0666 );
 >
 > results in the program working as it should.
 
 How embarassing, thank you. I migrated from fopen() and
 did not notice the additional parameter.
 
 Regards
 
   Dirk
 


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