Re: [Wireshark-commits] rev 51169: / /trunk/epan/: app_mem_usage.c

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Aug 6, 2013, at 3:57 PM, Dirk Jagdmann <doj () cubic org> wrote:

> > If not, would an lseek() followed by a read() do just as well?
>
> No. lseek() and read() modify the file position/offset. pread() however does *not* modify it. So to emulate pread() 
> you would need something like:

If you do an absolute lseek() before each read(), and no other code uses the file descriptor, an lseek() followed by a 
read() *would* do as well.  The only things the routine in question does with the FD (which is static to the routine) 
are

        (attempt to) open it if it's not already open;

        read it with

                ret = pread(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)-1, 0);
                if (ret <= 0)
                        return FALSE;

so that could be replaced by

                if (lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET) == -1)
                        return FALSE;
                ret = read(fd, buf, sizeof(buf)-1);
                if (ret <= 0)
                        return FALSE;
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