unix question: files per directory

[Peter da Silva]

In article <8420 at xanth.cs.odu.edu>, kremer at cs.odu.edu (Lloyd Kremer) writes:
> And it doesn't make sense to have a negative offset into a file.  The
> only exception that comes to mind is that of returning an error code from
> a function like lseek()...

Speaking of lseek, how about this case:

	lseek(fd, -1024L, 2);	/* Seek to last 1K of file */

It would negatively impact the performance of tail(1) to not have this
ability.
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