[fl]seek mechanism

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.BRL.MIL
Sun Sep 3 10:05:09 AEST 1989


In article <1631 at unccvax.UUCP> cs00chs at unccvax.UUCP (charles spell) writes:
>lseek(fd, 1L, 1);             -OR-               lseek(fd, 500001L, 0);

The kernel does essentially the same operation in both cases, the only
difference being a miniscule amount af extra arithmetic in the relative-
seek case.  Why are you worrying about such things, anyway?



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