Re: Programming in standard c

Bart C wrote:

I don't know how to deal with /var/adm/messages or similar. Suppose I read
byte-by-byte as recommended then someone updates the beginning of the file?
Maybe it's foolhardy to even attempt making a copy of such a file. I'm not
allowed to lock it because that's also frowned upon. What exactly can one do
with such a file?

You need to KNOW what you can do with a file before starting to do stuff
with it. That's an excellent reason why a generic gobble-into-RAM or
filesize function just doesn't make any sense.

robert
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