Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 08:46:05 -0800
From: Garrett Cooper <gcooper@FreeBSD.org>
To: Andrew Duane <aduane@juniper.net>
Cc: Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org>, "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject: Re: seeking into /dev/{null,zero}
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On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Andrew Duane <aduane@juniper.net> wrote:
> I thought seeking past EOF was valid; writing something creates a file with a hole in it. I always assumed that was standard semantics.
That's with SET_HOLE/SET_DATA though, correct? If so, outside of
that functionality I would assume relatively standard POSIX semantics.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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