At 03:42 PM 3/22/2004, Bojan Smojver wrote: >You are correct, it is probably an expensive operation. The other way >would be to know the position within a file and compare it to the one >that we should go to. If they are the same, do nothing.
I smell future bugs brewing - remember the handle may be dupped. >There is fgetpos() in ANSI C, but I'm not sure what the equivalent in >APR is and how expensive it is. That would be 2 kernel calls instead of one - always a losing proposition. Bill