From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2005-02-19T21:23:19+09:00
Subject: Re: IO#seek with SEEK_SET

Hi,

In message "Re: IO#seek with SEEK_SET"
    on Sat, 19 Feb 2005 19:39:44 +0900, Martin DeMello <martindemello@yahoo.com> writes:

|Does calling IO#seek on a file with the SEEK_SET option internally do
|something efficient if the position I want to seek to is ahead of the
|current position? Or does it always do a rewind and then seek?

It uses fseek(3) internally, so it's probably doing "something
efficient", rather than "rewind then seek".

							matz.