fseek and stdin

hi all,
i read a snippet code and found he/she used

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fseek(stdin, 0, SEEK_END)

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to flush the "stdin", it works, but is it portable?

thanks d'avance

i guess so. it's used for seeking the streams so i guess it's ok
it's gonna seek to the bigging of stdin

The first google hit for "fseek stdin" indicates that it's not portable. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/.../msg00389.html

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I tried to do a fseek(stdin , 0 , SEEK_END ) under linux.
On windows and solaris this commands cleans the input stream. Under linux
I get an error message il[l]egal seek.

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I may be wrong, but I remember reading something about using freopen() to open stdin for seeking. But that's probably just because freopen()ing stdin is just like fopen()ing a file.

So, fseek()ing in stdin is probably not portable.

[edit] If all you want to do is flush stdin, read this FAQ. http://faq.cprogramming.com/cgi-bin/...&id=1043284392 [/edit]

The call is portable.
The effect you desire however might not be.

fseek() has too many caveats (in the ISO standard), which when you add in various operating systems, and maybe redirecting stdin from say a file or a pipe, I doubt you'll get what you want in all cases.

thanks guys