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bug#36291: od --skip-bytes reads everything from the very beginning


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#36291: od --skip-bytes reads everything from the very beginning
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 18:52:01 -0700
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On 6/19/19 12:42 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
Maybe we should relax the cases we do read() for,
and try to seek in block/character special files,
falling back to read() where that fails?

Sure, that's easy enough. I installed the attached patch and am marking this bug report as done.

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