[Tiff] Re: [Gdal-dev] Problem of creation with Gtiff driver on Solaris

[Edward Lam]

Frank Warmerdam wrote:
> I think the seek was removed in the past because it made it difficult for
> someone to implement stream oriented access to TIFF files though I am not
> very sure about that aspect.  In any event, I think I had better re-introduce
> the seek in the core code till we work out more details. 

Ah, now this makes more sense. In bug #756, no one mentioned why this was 
necessary. It makes it more difficult for stream-oriented but I believe 
tif_stream now allows seeking even with strstreams.

-edward