Re: GSeekable and GBuffered{In,Out}putStream, GDataOutputStream

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2012-03-28 at 14:32 +0200, Maciej Marcin Piechotka wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> During discussion on bug #659781[1] a user stated that he cannot use
> GDataInputStream as it does not support seeks. After quick look it seems
> that adding support for it is relatively easy - the basic patch for
> GBufferedInputStream is +117/-4[2].
> 
> I can fill a full bug, test etc. but I would like to check first if it
> wasn't a deliberate choice. 

There is no conceptual reason for it to no support seek (although it has
to handle the case where the base stream can't seek), only laziness. So
please do file a full bug!