Re: execl bug?

From: Christopher Weimann (csw_at_k12hq.com)
Date: 12/30/04

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    Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 20:10:54 -0500
To: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>

    On 12/29/2004-06:10PM, Dan Nelson wrote:
    >
    > I think your problem here is with rewind(). There's nothing that says
    > it has to change the underlying filedescriptor; FreeBSD's fseek code
    > knows that the beginning of the file is still within its stdio buffer,
    > so it simply resets the seek offset in the FILE* back to zero. See the
    > code in /usr/src/lib/libc/stdio/fseek.c . Replacing your rewind() with
    > an lseek(0,0,SEEK_SET) makes the program work.
    >
    > --
    > Dan Nelson
    > dnelson@allantgroup.com
    >

    Perfect! It works, and it even makes sense to me :)

    Thank you! 

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