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SubjectBehavior of lseek() on a fd opened with 'RDONLY' flag, when seeking goes beyond file size.
Hi,

[Forgive me if this is not correct alias for this question.
(Behavior of lseek() on a fd opened with 'RDONLY' flag, when seeking goes beyond file size.)]

In linux, I see that it just goes beyond the file size and returns the resulting offset.
For example, 'rc = lseek(fd, 4L, SEEK_END);' on a file which has 5 byte contents,
it returns rc as 9.
I expect that it would return size of the file, i.e.) 5.

I am not finding any posix documentation for this either.

May I know the rational behind this behavior?
Does the file pointer internally really points to the new location.?

Thanks,
Saravanan



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