Re: Some design questions

Ken wrote:
>     The following snipped (seektest.c) can be illustrate:
> 
>             #include <stdio.h >
> 
>             main()
>             {
>                 fseek(stdout, 1024*1024, SEEK_SET);
>                 putchar('$');
>             }
> 
>     compile and run as "seektest > testfile; ls -ls testfile". This will
>     show the file size, as well as the amount of disk space currently
>     allocated for the file.
> 
> 
> I tried it on Win98, it is worked!
> 
> Ken

Thanks for confirming this.

You don't have older Win95, by any chance, do you?

BTW, the correct output of the "ls -ls testfile" command is similar to
either of these:

   8 -rw-r-----  1 rhociung asic    1048577 Apr 28 16:00 sparseout
1032 -rw-r-----  1 rhociung asic    1048577 Apr 28 16:02 nonsparseout

The sparseout file was generated on an ext3 filesystem, while the
nonsparseout file was generated by the same OS on a FAT filesystem, then
copied to the same directory as the sparseout file.

Both of these results are correct, as they indicate a 1M+1B file was
created when fseek-ing 1M past the end of file in write mode.

Greetings,
Radu.


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