Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 14:21:17 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com, jonny@gaia.coppe.ufrj.br Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: linux's lseek vs freebsd's lseek Message-ID: <199511130321.OAA02807@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> 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 ????? Yes. The linux emulator is buggy. It uses `unsigned long off' in its `linux_lseek_args' struct. This causes sign extension bugs when the offset is converted to a long long and passed to lseek(). Bruce
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