/* $Id: pread.c 5049 2001-12-12 09:06:00Z rra $ ** ** Replacement for a missing pread. ** ** Written by Russ Allbery ** This work is hereby placed in the public domain by its author. ** ** Provides the same functionality as the standard library routine pread ** for those platforms that don't have it. Note that pread requires that ** the file pointer not move and without the library function, we can't ** copy that behavior; instead, we approximate it by moving the file ** pointer and then moving it back. This may break threaded programs. */ #include "config.h" #include "clibrary.h" #include /* If we're running the test suite, rename pread to avoid conflicts with the system version. #undef first because large file support may define a macro pread (pointing to pread64) on some platforms (e.g. Solaris). */ #if TESTING # undef pread # define pread test_pread ssize_t test_pread(int, void *, size_t, off_t); #endif ssize_t pread(int fd, void *buf, size_t nbyte, off_t offset) { off_t current; ssize_t nread; int oerrno; current = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR); if (current == (off_t) -1 || lseek(fd, offset, SEEK_SET) == (off_t) -1) return -1; nread = read(fd, buf, nbyte); /* Ignore errors in restoring the file position; this isn't ideal, but reporting a failed read when the read succeeded is worse. Make sure that errno, if set, is set by read and not lseek. */ oerrno = errno; lseek(fd, current, SEEK_SET); errno = oerrno; return nread; }