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[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article >ylwvhf7b1v.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu>,
Russ Allbery  <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:
>lseek calls with a SEEK_CUR argument indicate that either your platform
>doesn't have a native pwrite call or libc is emulating it; they're coming
>from INN's pwrite emulation or something equivalent, which has to obtain
>the current file offset so that it can restore it after doing the write.
>lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR) is the most portable way I know of getting the
>current file offset.

I see. I misread the trace; the pwrites are preceded by that lseek,
but on another file descriptor..

The lseek() indeed comes from storage/ov3/ov3.c::OV3addrec() and
is used, as you said, to find out the current offset in the file.

Mistery solved ..

Mike.
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