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Date:	Mon, 03 Apr 2000 19:52:09 +0200
From:	Corinna Vinschen <corinna AT vinschen DOT de>
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Subject:	Re: Permission denied with makeinfo from texinfo-4.0
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Chris Faylor wrote:
> [...]
> That's not quite the same thing.  The behavior as I understand it is
> something like this:
> 
> #include <sys/types.h> etcetera...
> [...]
>   lseek (fd, (off_t) -2, SEEK_END);
>   bytes = read (fd, buf1 + (64000 - 2), 40000);
>   printf ("read: %d, err: %d, %s\n", bytes, errno, strerror(errno));
> [...]
> This supposedly works on UNIX and fails on Cygwin.

I had checked this either and it's really the same. It doesn't
work and it results in error EFAULT.

Corinna

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