[Vorbis-dev] patch for non-seekable streams on Windows

Monty xiphmont at xiph.org
Thu Oct 14 17:29:54 PDT 2004




> >Perhaps only some versions of windows have this bug?
> > 
> >
> The problem occurs on Windows XP, suggesting that it's been around for a 
> while in the NT flavors of Windows.

Agreed, although I'm presonally slightly astounded we'd not noticed
until this point in that case.

> "If successful, fseek returns 0. Otherwise, it returns a nonzero value. 
> On devices incapable of seeking, the return value is undefined."
> 
> The last sentence implies that the implementation is not ANSI and POSIX 
> compliant, no?

"Eek".  I don't suppose Windows has a supported seekability test in
that case?

Monty


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