https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/5528 <p> There's an error in boost iostreams documentation when it comes to describe the constant which the <strong>seek</strong> function has to be called with to position one of its heads to the end of the file. </p> <p> It says </p> <p> if way is std::ios_base::<strong>beg</strong>, the initial position is the end of the stream </p> <p> it oughta be </p> <p> if way is std::ios_base::<strong>end</strong>, the initial position is the end of the stream </p> <p> It's always been the same, since its first release, 1.33.0. </p> en-us /htdocs/site/boost.png https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/5528 Trac 1.4.3 anonymous Tue, 10 May 2011 09:37:23 GMT https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/5528#comment:1 https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/5528#comment:1 <ul> <li><strong>owner</strong> changed from <span class="trac-author">Matias Capeletto</span> to <span class="trac-author">Jonathan Turkanis</span> </li> <li><strong>component</strong> <span class="trac-field-old">Documentation</span> → <span class="trac-field-new">iostreams</span> </li> </ul> <p> URL for error: </p> <p> <a href="http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_1/libs/iostreams/doc/functions/seek.html">http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_46_1/libs/iostreams/doc/functions/seek.html</a> </p> Ticket anonymous Tue, 10 May 2011 09:40:50 GMT https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/5528#comment:2 https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/5528#comment:2 <ul> <li><strong>status</strong> <span class="trac-field-old">new</span> → <span class="trac-field-new">closed</span> </li> <li><strong>resolution</strong> → <span class="trac-field-new">duplicate</span> </li> </ul> <p> Duplicate of <a class="closed ticket" href="https://svn.boost.org/trac10/ticket/5338" title="#5338: Bugs: Wrong parameter documentation for boost::iostreams::seek (closed: fixed)">#5338</a>. </p> Ticket