From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 2 16:14:38 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from janus.syracuse.net (janus.syracuse.net [205.232.47.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22AAA14D5E for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 16:14:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from green@unixhelp.org) Received: from localhost (green@localhost) by janus.syracuse.net (8.9.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA95233 for ; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 19:14:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 19:14:20 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman X-Sender: green@janus.syracuse.net To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: dd(1) seek/skip limited why? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why are dd(1) seek and skip operations limited to INT_MAX? Is this for any real use, hysterical raisins, or just because noone cares? It's very useful to allow larger seeks/skips, and I've made the modifications to do so (very little, actually), but I wonder if we actually WANT this limitation... Do we? Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ____ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ | _ \__ \ |) | http://www.freebsd.org _ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message