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Date: | Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:04:25 +0200 |
From: | Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
To: | "[ML] CygWin " <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> |
Subject: | Re: happily messing up with raw devices (aka: lseek problems) |
Message-ID: | <20050907180425.GS5555@calimero.vinschen.de> |
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References: | <431F266D DOT 3050604 AT lapo DOT it> <20050907174848 DOT GR5555 AT calimero DOT vinschen DOT de> |
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On Sep 7 19:48, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Sep 7 19:42, Lapo Luchini wrote: > > Is is normal that Cygwin's lseek doesn't work on /dev/sda? > > What should I do? > > My own personal work-around would be to read all those 44 sectors (and > > discarding them), but I don't like that very much, is there some > > better/cleaner alternative? > > > > If anyone wants to see the source code, it's all in my Monotone > > server, so either > > I really thought you know better. > > - "It doesn't work" is not helpful. What's the error you get? > What happens? > > - What about a simple testcase(tm) to demonstrate the problem? Btw., I just tested with my own small testcase(tm) and with od(1) and I don't see anything wrong. Is it possible that you are stumbling over the fact that the second parameter to lseek is an off_t type and off_t is 64 bit (long long) on Cygwin? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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