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Re: dd skip bug?
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Brock Noland |
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Re: dd skip bug? |
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Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:03:10 -0500 |
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Brock Noland <address@hidden> wrote:
<snip>
> I agree that I would expect if the file is seekable and seek fails, dd
> would exit. But here it looks like we just cannot seek that large of
> an offset?
I implemented something that seeks in portions and it results in the
same error near the end of the file.
_llseek(0, 10000000, 0xbfe39670, SEEK_CUR) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
As such my original thought was wrong...
Respectfully,
Brock