[PORT] BeOS port problem and suggestion

[Fred Fish]

> 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