Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:58:09 GMT | From | "Stephen C. Tweedie" <> | Subject | Re: problems in pread(2). |
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Hi,
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999 07:51:22 +0000 (GMT), Tigran Aivazian <tigran@sco.COM> said:
> The Single Unix v2 specs says: > The pread() function will fail, and the file pointer remains unchanged, > if:
> [EOVERFLOW] > The file is a regular file and an attempt was made to read or > write at or beyond the offset maximum associated with the file.
> The "offset maximum associated with the file" is the fancy way of saying > "current size of the file".
No, the "offset maximum" is a fancy way of saying "the maximum possible offset_t supported for this file descriptor".
--Stephen
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