From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 12:51:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA28781 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 12:51:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA28774 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 12:51:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA09157 for hackers@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 21:51:03 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA05889; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 21:30:17 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 21:30:17 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199704181930.VAA05889@uriah.heep.sax.de> X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Subject: Re: _BSD_OFF_T_ type long long (fwd) To: hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Anybody feeling compelled? ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: Todd C Miller 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 Lines: 11 Sender: millert@home.courtesan.com Message-ID: <5ibcha$27p$1@xyzzy.home.courtesan.com> Reply-To: millert@courtesan.com (Todd C Miller) X-Newsposter: Pnews 4.0-test45 (19 Oct 96) >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 -- Todd C. Miller Sysadmin/Consultant Todd.Miller@courtesan.com