OpenEuphoria

Re: Known Bugs List and new language features?

• Posted by rossboyd at ihug.com.au Aug 15, 2001
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Thankyou for the listserv link Igor.
And I believe you are correct about the seek past the end of file
causing the undefined bytes to be added to the file.
Ross

> You can search for the words "bug" or "bugs" at
> http://www.rapideuphoria.com/listserv.htm
> and you'll have the full report on your question
> about Eu bugs.
>
> Then, about 'spurious' data, Eu really concatenate
> some extra room to file, if you *seek* past the end
> of your file. See docs.
>
> --<seek>--
> "The value returned by seek()is 0 if the seek was
> successful, and non-zero if it was unsuccessful.
> It is possible to seek past the end of a file.
> In this case undefined bytes will be added
> to the file to make it long enough for the seek."
> Regards,
> Igor Kachan