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Subject: Re: linux's lseek vs freebsd's lseek 
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From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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Hi,

I will have to investigate further more since without this change
doom and the music server do not work.

	Tnks,
	Amancio

>>> Bakul Shah said:
 > >                 (int)fp->f_offset += (int)uap->offset;
 > >                 ^^^^                 ^^^^
 > > The question is what is the implication of doing a signed addition as
 > > supposed to an unsigned addition as it is in the original file.
 > 
 > Huh? f_offset & uap->offset are of type quad_t, which is a
 > signed quantity and -ve offsets are perfectly reasonable
 > when you seek relative to file-end or current-position.
 >