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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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