linux-kernel - Behavior of lseek() on a fd opened with 'RDONLY' flag, when seeking goes beyond file size.

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Message-ID: <535337.98001.qm@web8712.mail.in.yahoo.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:36:53 +0530 (IST)
From:	palani saravanan <busybeesaravanan0072003@...oo.co.in>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Behavior of lseek() on a fd opened with 'RDONLY' flag, when seeking goes beyond file size.

Hi,

   [Forgive me if this is not correct alias for this question. 
    (Behavior of lseek() on a fd opened with 'RDONLY' flag, when seeking goes beyond file size.)]

   In linux, I see that it just goes beyond the file size and returns the resulting offset.
   For example, 'rc = lseek(fd, 4L, SEEK_END);' on a file which has 5 byte contents,
   it returns rc as 9.
   I expect that it would return size of the file, i.e.) 5.

   I am not finding any posix documentation for this either.

   May I know the rational behind this behavior?  
   Does the file pointer internally really points to the new location.?

Thanks,
Saravanan

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