Correct i2c access semantics

Hello. I am writing a small program to read "DDC" data from a monitor on the i2c bus. My application is custom so I need to properly init and program an FPGA before I can access the monitor.

What I am seeing is that if I open() the correct i2c bus, then I ioctl with I2C_SLAVE to select the right slave, then read(fd, buffer, 0x100) I can consistently access the correct data.

However, if I only read(fd, buffer, 0x80) (in fact I do not need the DDC/EDID data above 0x80 for my application), next time I run the program, it will start reading from offset 0x80 from that device. In fact, it seems like there is a static index on the i2c reads, that is not reset when I perform close(), open(), or the program exits.

However, if I do one i2c_smbus_read_byte_data() it will always reset the offset read to the first byte.

i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(fd, 0);
i = read(fd, data + 1, 0xff);

The code above ALWAYS read the same bytes from the i2c device.

Is this the expected behaviour, or am I missing something? I am using an older Linux 3.5 in this application.

Thank you
as