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On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 04:29:48PM -0500, Jesse Luehrs wrote: > I don't personally have any ideas, there just seemed to be a lot of > tickets related to this issue, and it wasn't clear that they should all > be immediately closed as wontfix. If we end up making that decision, > this will at least make it easier to clear out the tracker. I think they should be wontfix. If I have a character oriented stream that I've sensibly cached positions for (by calling tell()), I can currently efficiently and reasonably call seek() to return to that character in the file, even though I've stored a byte position. If seek()/tell() is changed to work in characters, with the "seek to the beginning and count characters" then the code described above will still work, but will become enourmously inefficient. As a reference, C only defines fseek() to random positions for binary streams, on text streams the only specified behaviour is for fseek(f, 0, (any SEEK_*)) and fseek*f, some_value_from_ftell, SEEK_SET). TonyThread Previous | Thread Next