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.
#ifndef _HG_COMPAT_H_
#define _HG_COMPAT_H_
#ifdef _WIN32
#ifdef _MSC_VER
#if _MSC_VER < 1900
/* msvc 6.0 has problems */
#define inline __inline
#if defined(_WIN64)
typedef __int64 ssize_t;
typedef unsigned __int64 uintptr_t;
#else
typedef int ssize_t;
typedef unsigned int uintptr_t;
#endif
typedef signed char int8_t;
typedef short int16_t;
typedef long int32_t;
typedef __int64 int64_t;
typedef unsigned char uint8_t;
typedef unsigned short uint16_t;
typedef unsigned long uint32_t;
typedef unsigned __int64 uint64_t;
#else
/* VC++ 14 */
#include <stdint.h>
#if defined(_WIN64)
typedef __int64 ssize_t;
#else
typedef int ssize_t;
#endif
#endif /* _MSC_VER < 1900 */
#else
/* not msvc */
#include <stdint.h>
#endif
#else
/* not windows */
#include <sys/types.h>
#if defined __BEOS__ && !defined __HAIKU__
#include <ByteOrder.h>
#else
#include <arpa/inet.h>
#endif
#include <inttypes.h>
#endif
#if defined __hpux || defined __SUNPRO_C || defined _AIX
#define inline
#endif
#ifdef __linux
#define inline __inline
#endif
#endif