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don't disable seeking after first seek failure

this could cause problems if the application uses dup2(fd,fileno(f))
to redirect, and the old fd was not seekable but the new fd is.
Rich Felker 14 years ago
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1 changed files with 0 additions and 8 deletions
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      src/stdio/__stdio_seek.c

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src/stdio/__stdio_seek.c

@@ -1,11 +1,5 @@
 #include "stdio_impl.h"
 
-static off_t retneg1(FILE *f, off_t off, int whence)
-{
-	errno = ESPIPE;
-	return -1;
-}
-
 off_t __stdio_seek(FILE *f, off_t off, int whence)
 {
 	off_t ret;
@@ -15,7 +9,5 @@ off_t __stdio_seek(FILE *f, off_t off, int whence)
 #else
 	ret = syscall(SYS_lseek, f->fd, off, whence);
 #endif
-	/* Detect unseekable files and optimize future failures out */
-	if (ret < 0 && errno == ESPIPE) f->seek = retneg1;
 	return ret;
 }