Re^2: UTF-8 and systemIO are not friends anymore (unfortunate)

t seems rather nonsensical to me

Why? Perl's sysread:

sysread FILEHANDLE,SCALAR,LENGTH,OFFSET
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(my system's) pread:

ssize_t pread(int fd, void *buf, size_t count, off_t offset);
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How can it work with anything other than bytes and still call itself sys-something? (even if Perl's pread is actually lseek and read... that doesn't change much wrt utf-8)

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Re^3: UTF-8 and systemIO are not friends anymore (unfortunate) by Anonymous Monk on Dec 31, 2015 at 01:29 UTC
LOL! Shows how much I use `sysread`... But anyway, the argument about `seek` stands. But sorry! :)	[reply] [d/l] [select]