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Date:	Wed, 7 Sep 2005 20:18:36 +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)
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Try this:

On Sep  7 20:11, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> At the bare minumum it all boils down to:
> 
> % cat short.c
> #include <sys/stat.h>
> #include <errno.h>
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <stdio.h>

  #include <unistd.h>

> #define GAG_OFFSET 0x59BD
> main() {
>   char sect[512];
>   int dev, i;
>   dev = open("/dev/sdb", O_RDONLY | O_BINARY, 0);
>   if (dev < 0) perror("open");
>   i = lseek(dev, GAG_OFFSET & (~0x1FF), SEEK_SET);
>   if (i < 0) perror("seek");
> }
> % gcc -O -ggdb -o short short.c
> % ./short
> seek: Invalid argument

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