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On April 7, 2010, Matthew Leverton wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Thomas Fjellstrom <tfjellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> > On April 7, 2010, Matthew Leverton wrote:
> >> Should that go to position 10, or stay at 0, since the slice hasn't
> >> been written to?
> >
> > I would have to say 10, since the file already has 10 bytes in it.
>
> That was my initial reasoning, but I'm pretty sure it should stay at 0.
>
> Think of the slice as an independent file. If you pass it to a routine
> expecting a "blank" file, it will assume SEEK_END would be the highest
> position it wrote to.
But you just told it to seek to the end, the slice obviously has data in it,
so it should seek to the end.
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