Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: lseek("/dev/hda1", 0, SEEK_END) returns 0 | Date | Mon, 18 Jan 1999 19:54:13 +0000 (GMT) |
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> 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
> 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...
Alan
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