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Re: [PORT] BeOS port problem and suggestion
- From: Fred Fish <fnf at intrinsity dot com>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: fnf at intrinsity dot com (Fred Fish)
- Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 09:20:07 -0500 (CDT)
- Subject: Re: [PORT] BeOS port problem and suggestion
- Reply-to: fnf at intrinsity dot com
> When Be was maintening its own gnupro version, they took care to handle
> some specifics area of BeOS inside them port.
>
> One is a problem with the BeOS fseek that rely on BFS filesystem : on
> BFS when you fseek on a new create file, none of offset is set with
> zeros. So if you fseek/seek and you don't use the pass area, when you
> will write your file, you will have some garbage inside.
>
> I would like to handle this problem like this :
This was discussed on the binutils list back in late Aug of 2000.
I will forward to you privately a copy of my archived mail about
this, some of which took place off the list.
-Fred