[En-Nut-Discussion] Strange behavior with files using file attributes '+' or 'a'

[Harald Kipp]

Andreas Helmcke wrote:
> Michael Bieri wrote:
>>
>> - Sometimes, the 'a' attribute doesn't append my data, it only appends 
>> some trash with the same length at the end.
>> - Sometimes, the 'a' attribute doesn't start "inserting"/appending data 
>> at the end of my file, but inserts it at the beginning. fseek(..., 
>> SEEK_END) does fix this problem.
>> - If I try to insert some data with 'rb+', it behaves like an ordinary 
>> 'w' (existing data is lost, but new data is there).
> 
> I had similar problems when trying to append to an already existing file but 
> didn't find by now the time to file a bug.
> For me it works properly when opening the file with the correct attributes and 
> doing fseek(...,0,SEEK_END) immediately afterwards.

Thanks for reporting this. Someone can add this to the bugtracker, please?

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=34079

Harald