On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Koh Sato wrote:

:   I would appreciate if someone gives me a confirmation that it is
: possible to lseek() back the standard output when it is redirected to a
: (trivial) file.

Yes, you can.

When you use simple redirection on stdin or stdout with a plain file as the
target, it's identical to as if you had open()ed the file by hand inside the
program.  The only difference may be whether O_RDONLY or O_WRONLY is
selected based on the < or >.  Therefore, such a redirection can be used
with lseek() or even stdio's fseek().

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