On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 13:41 +0200, Jose E.Marchesi wrote:
> We cannot access to the internals of the fpos_t type. It is declared
> as opaque by the libc and its internal structure may change in
> different systems.
>
> The code in pdf-fsys-disk.c is incorrect, since fpos_t is defined as a
> structure by glibc. At this point I think that we should use
> ftell/fseek with SEEK_SET instead of the f(set|get)pos functions.
But it's said in manual
On some non-UNIX systems an fpos_t object may be a complex object
and these routines may be the only way to portably repo‐
sition a text stream.
Which means ftell/fseek does not always work.
And one simple question:
Why set file position is needed here?
Br,
Yang
