Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Dec 2001 03:29:16 +0200 | From | Matti Aarnio <> | Subject | Re: dd of=blkdev seek=123 -> EINVAL ?? |
| |
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:00:28AM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote: > With recent dd (4.0p) and 2.4.17rc1 an attempt to write (with DD) > into a block-device yields EINVAL error.
With dd 4.1.3 the problem no longer exists. That newer version does fstat() on file, and notices that it is, indeed, a device.
End of problem.
But why I am seeing mysterious total hangs of this kernel is another story, and probably related to memory allocation...
/Matti Aarnio - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |