From: Bertram Scharpf <lists@...>
Date: 2005-02-19T21:39:14+09:00
Subject: Re: IO#seek with SEEK_SET

Hi,

Am Samstag, 19. Feb 2005, 19:39:44 +0900 schrieb Martin DeMello:
> 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?

That depends on what you operation system's `lseek' call
does.

I would be wondering if the hard disks read head
moved the way you describe.

Bertram

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