Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 13:40:10 -0800 From: Devin Teske <dteske@vicor.com> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: reverse of getchar() read() open() fopen() ? Message-ID: <1297460410.9144.10.camel@dt.vicor.com> In-Reply-To: <201102112132.p1BLWkiP003000@fire.js.berklix.net> References: <201102112132.p1BLWkiP003000@fire.js.berklix.net>
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On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 22:32 +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Hi hackers@, > Do we have C libraries with reverse of getchar() [ & maybe read() > ] & fopen() [ & maybe open() ] etc, to read from end of file toward > beginning ? `tail -r' will spit out lines of a file in reverse-order. Maybe the source to tail(1) can offer some insights: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.bin/tail/ -- Devin P.S. Sorry for the non-answer. > I dont see anything in the See Also sections. I'm not > looking to write, just read. I'm looking for something that returns > last char in file as first etc, I'm not interested in wchars etc, > I could write some C functions, with seek etc & probably will, if > none exist, but no point if they already exist ? > > Cheers, > Julian
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