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From: Vadim Kolontsov <vadim@tversu.ru>
To: "John W. DeBoskey" <jwd@unx.sas.com>
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Subject: Re: seek to negative offset?
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On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 04:25:26PM -0400, John W. DeBoskey wrote:

>    The subject says it all... We have some code that scans files
> backwards... 
> 
>    In looking through /usr/src/sys/kern/vfs_syscalls.c I can't see
> where we do any validation on the resulting seek location... Do the
> appropriate folks think this is a bug? How about posix? Should I 
> go ahead and submit a pr with a patch?

  I've just discovered kern/6184 (from Mar 1998, state: open). Seems like
patch which fixes it was never commited.

V.


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