contrib/chg/util.h

posix: always seek to EOF when opening a file in append mode

Python 3 already does this, so skip it there.

Consider the program:

   #include <stdio.h>

   int main() {
     FILE *f = fopen("narf", "w");
     fprintf(f, "narf\n");
     fclose(f);

     f = fopen("narf", "a");
     printf("%ld\n", ftell(f));
     fprintf(f, "troz\n");
     printf("%ld\n", ftell(f));

     return 0;
   }

on macOS, FreeBSD, and Linux with glibc, this program prints

   5
   10

but on musl libc (Alpine Linux and probably others) this prints

   0
   10

By my reading of
https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/fopen.html
this is technically correct, specifically:

> Opening a file with append mode (a as the first character in the
> mode argument) shall cause all subsequent writes to the file to be
> forced to the then current end-of-file, regardless of intervening
> calls to fseek().

in other words, the file position doesn't really matter in append-mode
files, and we can't depend on it being at all meaningful unless we
perform a seek() before tell() after open(..., 'a'). Experimentally
after a .write() we can do a .tell() and it'll always be reasonable,
but I'm unclear from reading the specification if that's a smart thing
to rely on. This matches what we do on Windows and what Python 3 does
for free, so let's just be consistent. Thanks to Yuya for the idea.

/*
 * Utility functions
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2011 Yuya Nishihara <[e-mail]>
 *
 * This software may be used and distributed according to the terms of the
 * GNU General Public License version 2 or any later version.
 */

#ifndef UTIL_H_
#define UTIL_H_

#ifdef __GNUC__
#define PRINTF_FORMAT_ __attribute__((format(printf, 1, 2)))
#define UNUSED_ __attribute__((unused))
#else
#define PRINTF_FORMAT_
#define UNUSED_
#endif

void abortmsg(const char *fmt, ...) PRINTF_FORMAT_;
void abortmsgerrno(const char *fmt, ...) PRINTF_FORMAT_;

void enablecolor(void);
void enabledebugmsg(void);
void debugmsg(const char *fmt, ...) PRINTF_FORMAT_;

void fchdirx(int dirfd);
void fsetcloexec(int fd);
void *mallocx(size_t size);
void *reallocx(void *ptr, size_t size);

int runshellcmd(const char *cmd, const char *envp[], const char *cwd);

#endif /* UTIL_H_ */