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Date:      Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:14:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
To:        Terry Lambert <terry@whistle.com>
Cc:        Robert Watson <robert@cyrus.watson.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: aio_read
Message-ID:  <199904052114.OAA17600@apollo.backplane.com>
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990405141834.22049D-100000@fledge.watson.org> <199904051834.LAA11656@apollo.backplane.com> <37091909.B0257CB7@whistle.com>

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:>     design mistake.
:>     The only way to get your own descriptor seek offset is to
:>     open() the file again.
:
:After you said this, I found it so hard to believe that I had
:to go look.
:
:All I can say is, well I'll be damned; you could knock me over
:with a feather, and that doesn't happen often.

    Same thing happened to me 12 years ago when I first understood this
    particular brokedness.

						-Matt


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