I'm having problems getting tell() to return a value other than 0 after doing a sysread(). 
# in a loop after appropriate open
$bytes = sysread($self->{FH},$self->{buffer},1024);
print tell($self->{FH}),"\n";

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$bytes is a lovely 1024, and there is good stuff in the buffer, but tell() is always returning 0; Is it my reference to a filehandle which works fine for sysread, but not for tell?
perlcapt
-ben
Update: merlyn explains why it doesn't work. The manual says to use sysseek(FH,0,1) which returns the offset just as implied. Problem understood and solved

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