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Summary:ASTERISK-06364: [patch] format_sln -- ignoring error returned from fseek
Reporter:Denis Smirnov (mithraen)Labels:
Date Opened:2006-02-19 04:35:43.000-0600Date Closed:2006-02-19 11:25:16.000-0600
Priority:MinorRegression?No
Status:Closed/CompleteComponents:Core/General
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Description:fseek returns 0 if no error or -1 if any error.
Useless division by to make return always equal to 0.

int a = -1;
int b = a / 2;
print( "%d\n", b );

would print "0".
Comments:By: Tilghman Lesher (tilghman) 2006-02-19 10:11:12.000-0600

Fixed, but not with your patch.
By: Denis Smirnov (mithraen) 2006-02-19 10:50:25.000-0600

from fseek(3) on Linux:

RETURN VALUE
      The  rewind()  function  returns no value.  Upon successful completion,
      fgetpos(), fseek(), fsetpos() return 0, and ftell() returns the current
      offset.  Otherwise, -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set
      to indicate the error.

fseek can return only -1 and 0 on Linux. Why you need this division? Is there other platforms, where fseek can return something other then -1 or 0?
By: Tilghman Lesher (tilghman) 2006-02-19 11:07:57.000-0600

Signed linear format has 2 bytes per sample, so it needs the division to properly return the number of samples.
By: Denis Smirnov (mithraen) 2006-02-19 11:12:56.000-0600

If you need return _number of samples_ you need to use ftell after fseek.

fseek _does not_ return number of samples. It returns '0' if seek done, or '-1', if error.

And in other formats, e.g. format_gsm, *_seek returns directly result of fseek.