From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 22:36:10 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Of course, I shouldn't have used lseek() to find out the file's
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Of course, I shouldn't have used lseek() to find out the file's
position in new_buffersize(); the correct function to use is ftell().
Thanks to Ben Jackson.
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diff --git a/Objects/fileobject.c b/Objects/fileobject.c
index 5502f156ff68..f8c58ba45430 100644
--- a/Objects/fileobject.c
+++ b/Objects/fileobject.c
@@ -406,17 +406,14 @@ new_buffersize(f, currentsize)
 	size_t currentsize;
 {
 #ifdef HAVE_FSTAT
-#ifndef SEEK_CUR
-#define SEEK_CUR 1
-#endif
 	long pos, end;
 	struct stat st;
 	if (fstat(fileno(f->f_fp), &st) == 0) {
 		end = st.st_size;
-		pos = lseek(fileno(f->f_fp), 0L, SEEK_CUR);
+		pos = ftell(f->f_fp);
 		if (end > pos && pos >= 0)
-			return end - pos + BUFSIZ;
-		/* Add BUFSIZ to allow for stdio buffered data */
+			return end - pos + 1;
+		/* Add 1 so if the file were to grow we'd notice. */
 	}
 #endif
 	if (currentsize > SMALLCHUNK) {