reverse of getchar() read() open() fopen() ?

[Brian Reichert]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:32:46PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote:
> Hi hackers@, 
> Do we have C libraries with reverse of getchar() [ & maybe read()
> ] & fopen() [ & maybe open() ] etc, to read from end of file toward
> beginning ?  I dont see anything in the See Also sections.  I'm not
> looking to write, just read.  I'm looking for something that returns
> last char in file as first etc, I'm not interested in wchars etc,
> I could write some C functions, with seek etc & probably will, if
> none exist, but no point if they already exist ?

Use lseek() to position yourself, iterate over the file, copying into a
small buffer, then iterate over your buffer in reverse?

Maybe I misunderstood you...

> Cheers,
> Julian

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