Date: Sat, 3 Apr 1999 10:13:50 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dd(1) seek/skip limited why? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904031006360.6761-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904021912290.95226-100000@janus.syracuse.net>
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On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Brian Feldman wrote: > 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 > Also, I find that dd(1) refuses to lseek for the skip operation (pos_in) on a cdev, even though it certainly does seem to work on all that I've tried except sndstat... Now I could have dd(1) work around this if lseek actually worked correctly on these cdevs. However, lseek succeeds on devices that cannot be seeked (joy0, sndstat, etc). Am I the only one who thinks this is wrong? 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
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