From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 12 18:46:35 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA00816 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 18:46:35 -0800 Received: from gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (root@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br [146.164.63.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA00799 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 1995 18:46:25 -0800 Received: (from jonny@localhost) by gaia.coppe.ufrj.br (8.6.11/8.6.9) id AAA07796; Mon, 13 Nov 1995 00:45:58 -0200 From: Joao Carlos Mendes Luis Message-Id: <199511130245.AAA07796@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br> Subject: Re: linux's lseek vs freebsd's lseek To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 00:45:57 -0200 (EDT) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199511122043.MAA01434@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Nov 12, 95 12:43:37 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 448 Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > While in the process of getting Linux's music server for Doom (musserver) > working, I discovered that on linux you can issue a seek with a negative > offset. You mean the off_t parameter ? Hasn't this been the default since the very beginning of Unix ????? Jonny -- Joao Carlos Mendes Luis jonny@coe.ufrj.br +55 21 290-4698 ( Job ) jonny@adc.coppe.ufrj.br Network Manager UFRJ/COPPE/CISI Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro