how to rewite a particular block of file

Question

hello guys I want to rewrite a particular block in a file but its not working for me

For example if I want to rewrite to offset 4 of the file I used lseek(fd,4,SEEK_SET) and called write system call but its writing at the end of the file instead of at offset 4. Can someone please help me.

Answer 1

Don't use O_APPEND. It will append everything to the end of the file, regardless of your seeking.

Use:

open("file.txt", O_RDWR);

You're assuming the file already exists, so I don't see why you would use O_CREAT.