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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 03:26:45 -0400
From: Nathaniel W Filardo <nwf@cs.jhu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: [9fans] What's so special about seek() ?
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/sys/src/libc/9syscall/mkfile has a rather odd looking special case for the
seek system call... it looks like if seek fails (returns -1) that the first
two arguments (fd and offset) are overwritten with -1.  What's going on
here?  The manual page doesn't hint at anything...

Thanks.
--nwf;

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