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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 13:35:46 -0400
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Subject: Re: Permission denied with makeinfo from texinfo-4.0
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On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 03:37:57PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>=== SNIP ===
>#include <sys/types.h> etcetera...
>...
>int
>main(int argc, char** argv)
>{
>  int fd;
>  char buf1[64000];
>  ssize_t bytes;
>
>  if ((fd = open (argv[1] ? argv[1] : argv[0], O_RDONLY)) < 0)
>    return 0;
>  lseek (fd, (off_t) 0, SEEK_END);
>  bytes = read (fd, buf1 + 64000, 40000);
>  printf ("read: %d, err: %d, %s\n", bytes, errno, strerror(errno));
>  close (fd);
>  return 0;
>}
>=== SNAP ===
>
>and the message is
>
>read: -1, err: 14, Bad address       <=== EFAULT!
>
>as it's currently under cygwin, too, and it _is_ an UNIX-style error.
>This is documented in the linux read(2) man page as well.
>
>So, if this behaviour is the same in a "reference os", where is
>the problem??? Well, uhm, I have no copy of POSIX, obviously...

That's not quite the same thing.  The behavior as I understand it is
something like this:

#include <sys/types.h> etcetera...
...
int
main(int argc, char** argv)
{ 
  int fd;
  char buf1[64000];
  ssize_t bytes;

  if ((fd = open (argv[1] ? argv[1] : argv[0], O_RDONLY)) < 0)
    return 0;
  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));
  close (fd);
  return 0;
}

This supposedly works on UNIX and fails on Cygwin.

cgf