Re: 'tell' is missing from libc6

[Torsten Hilbrich <Torsten.Hilbrich@bln.de>]

Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com> writes:

> It appears the "tell(path)" command is missing from libc6.  What
> should I be using instead?

The only "tell" that I could find in libc-5.4.33 is the following one:

file sysdeps/linux/tell.c:

off_t
tell (int fildes)
{
  return __lseek (fildes, 0, SEEK_CUR);
}

If that is the right function the replacement should be obvious using
the syscall lseek, but you should prefer the use of ftell on FILE* if
possible.

If this is the wrong function you should tell us what tell(path)
is doing, I haven't heard of such a function yet.

        Torsten

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