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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Size difference reported by /proc/partitions and lseek(SEEK_END) on block device
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On Dec  7 11:17, Loh, Joe wrote:
> We just installed the cygwin-inst-20051207.tar.bz2 snapshot.  The output
> in //proc/partitions is the same as the Cygwin Kernel 1.5.18.  However,
> the lseek(SEEK_END) no longer works.  When I rerun the "C" program it
> gave the following error. I even recompiled with the new snapshot just
> to make sure, still the same error.  I have also attached the strace
> output for the lseekend.
> 
> $ ./lseekend.exe /dev/sda
> lseek: Invalid argument

Ouch.  Thanks for the report.  I have fixed a buggy condition which
only allowed to seek to 1 byte below EOM in CVS.  You should see the
change in the next developers snapshot.

> Here's the output from the snapshot:
> 
> major minor  #blocks  name
> 
>     8     0  78124095 sda
>     8     1  15358108 sda1
>     8     2    104422 sda2
>     8     3  16386300 sda3

The reason that /proc/partition contains wrong information is that
the /proc/partition information uses an old, deprecated IOCTL call
to evaluate the disk size by # of cylinders, # of tracks per sektor,
etc.  I didn't fix that so far but it's not overly complicated, so
stay tuned.


Thanks again,
Corinna

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