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Hi Hackers,

why does these function allow seeking beyond the EOF of a file in
O_RDONLY/=B2rb=B2 mode ?
How does these function then signal the EOF correctly ?

Seeking beyond the EOF makes sense for me in write-mode but not in read-onl=
y
mode !

With Regards,
Martin