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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2014-05-27 13:54:19 +0530
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com>2014-05-27 13:54:19 +0530
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Fix offset computation for append+ mode on switching from read (BZ #16724)
The offset computation in write mode uses the fact that _IO_read_end
is kept in sync with the external file offset.  This however is not
true when O_APPEND is in effect since switching to write mode ought to
send the external file offset to the end of file without making the
necessary adjustment to _IO_read_end.

Hence in append mode, offset computation when writing should only
consider the effect of unflushed writes, i.e. from _IO_write_base to
_IO_write_ptr.

The wiki has a detailed document that describes the rationale for
offsets returned by ftell in various conditions:

https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/File%20offsets%20in%20a%20stdio%20stream%20and%20ftell
Diffstat (limited to 'libio/wfileops.c')
-rw-r--r--libio/wfileops.c13
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/libio/wfileops.c b/libio/wfileops.c
index 3199861b4d..f123add354 100644
--- a/libio/wfileops.c
+++ b/libio/wfileops.c
@@ -713,9 +713,16 @@ do_ftell_wide (_IO_FILE *fp)
 	      offset += outstop - out;
 	    }
 
-	  /* _IO_read_end coincides with fp._offset, so the actual file
-	     position is fp._offset - (_IO_read_end - new_write_ptr).  */
-	  offset -= fp->_IO_read_end - fp->_IO_write_ptr;
+	  /* We don't trust _IO_read_end to represent the current file offset
+	     when writing in append mode because the value would have to be
+	     shifted to the end of the file during a flush.  Use the write base
+	     instead, along with the new offset we got above when we did a seek
+	     to the end of the file.  */
+	  if (append_mode)
+	    offset += fp->_IO_write_ptr - fp->_IO_write_base;
+	  /* For all other modes, _IO_read_end represents the file offset.  */
+	  else
+	    offset += fp->_IO_write_ptr - fp->_IO_read_end;
 	}
     }