PROPOSAL: add tryFdSeek to unix

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at serpentine.com
Wed Jun 29 20:03:19 CEST 2011


On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:59 AM, wren ng thornton <wren at freegeek.org> wrote:

>
> Why should it be wrapped?


Because an error from seek is an exceptional condition, and we know from
long experience in numerous languages that people are very good at
forgetting to check for exceptional conditions.
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