Date: Sun, 12 Nov 1995 13:43:13 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux's lseek vs freebsd's lseek Message-ID: <199511122143.NAA03928@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Nov 1995 13:06:36 PST." <199511122106.NAA21837@netcom22.netcom.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. >
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