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Subject: Re: Position-based learning glitch

Author: Stuart Cracraft

Date: 08:35:45 06/14/98

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On June 13, 1998 at 21:55:27, Robert Hyatt wrote:


>
>should you not OR in O_APPEND with the O_WRONLY flag, so that you only
>add to the end?
>

Done.


>
>Also, I'd stop opening and closing the learn file multiple times.  Open
>it, seek to the end, write a position, seek to the beginning and store
>them
>in the real hash table when you want...

Also done.

and the problem still recurs. I get a stray byte every so often which
throws off the entire position file and renders it useless.

Back to the drawing board. I can't believe that a series of
fseek/fwrite's or lseek/write's on an open file (and a closed one)
can produce odd byte writing on the PC.



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