Sept. 28, 2012
4:43 a.m.
On 2012-09-28 03:07, Greg Ewing wrote:
Jim Jewett wrote:
For text files, I would expect it to be a character count rather than a byte count. So this particular proposal might end up adding as much confusion as it hopes to remove.
I'm given to understand that the file positions used by the C standard library are supposed to be treated as opaque tokens -- you're not guaranteed to be able to perform arithmetic on them.
Yet you're allowed to do relative seeks? Does that mean that the file position basically works with some undefined units (bytes, characters, whatever)?