Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 21:30:17 +0200 (MET DST) From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: _BSD_OFF_T_ type long long (fwd) Message-ID: <199704181930.VAA05889@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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Anybody feeling compelled?
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From: Todd C Miller <millert@courtesan.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: _BSD_OFF_T_ type long long
Date: 7 Apr 1997 11:56:58 -0600
Organization: Courtesan Consulting
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>From the keyboard of bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans):
> dd seek offsets are still broken. There is an obvious overflow bug
> in pos_in(), and 32-bit block numbers are used throughout, so when
> the block size is small, offsets are more limited than in the kernel.
You may wish to take a look at the changes I made to dd(1)
in OpenBSD. They fix the dd problems I was seeing...
- todd
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Todd C. Miller Sysadmin/Consultant Todd.Miller@courtesan.com
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