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

Harald Kipp harald.kipp at egnite.de
Mon Mar 31 17:26:02 CEST 2008


Michael Bieri wrote:
>> Andreas Helmcke wrote:
>>> For me it works properly when opening the file with the correct attributes and 
>>> doing fseek(...,0,SEEK_END) immediately afterwards.
> Andreas' proposal does fix the problem with the 'a'-attribute.

Not really. I checked the fopen() manual page again. If I understood 
this correctly, 'a' will always append, while the file pointer starts at 
the beginning of the file and is used for reading only.


Harald



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