Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:11:00 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: lseek("/dev/hda1", 0, SEEK_END) returns 0 |
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Hi!
> > I would like to ask you if the lseek with SEEK_END and offset of 0 > > should return 0 > > when used on raw devices like hard disk or cdrom. > > Its not defined for them
Some time ago patch floated around which made SEEK_END work. I guess it gives sense for partitions, still it is not going to be usefull on i386 anytime soon.
I think working SEEK_END would be nice feature...
> > By example Solaris 2.5 returns the correct length of partiton but Linux > > 2.0 returns 0. > > 2.5 doesnt - try it on an 8Gig partition...
:-( but on alpha it might be nice. Pavel -- I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
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