Re: fseeko failure [was: wcwidth failure on RedHat Linux 7.3 (coreutils-6.9.91)]

[Peter Fales]

On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:49:01PM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> Definitely a bug in the resulting fseeko - POSIX requires a successful
> seek to clear the EOF marker.  The question now is whether this is the
> native fseeko (in which case, m4/fseeko.m4 needs to be enhanced to detect
> this flaw and work around it), or if config.log already filtered out
> fseeko as broken, in which case, lib/fseeko.c needs to be patched so that
> rpl_fseeko correctly clears the EOF marker.

FWIW, I added -g to my CFLAGS and ran test-fseeko under gdb.  I was
able to plant a breakpoint in rpl_fseeko (and hit it), so I guess
that's where the problem is.

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