Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2000 13:18:31 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sun, 16 Jan 100, Martin Str|mberg wrote:

> > So, if I understand correctly, you are suggesting to implement lseek
> > of -2 as lseek of -3 followed by lseek of +1, is that right?
> 
> Eeeh... I don't understand what that would give us.

I was trying to understand what were you suggesting as the solution.  
Seems like I didn't understand it.  Can you describe your solution
in more details?

> After running this, I'll have a file g:/ggg.grr that is 2^32-3 big!
> 
> Substitute -3 with any big value in [2^31, 2^32-3] and you'll get a
> big file (I've tried a couple different ones).

Does this mean that FAT32 doesn't support negative seeks directly, even 
with SEEK_CUR?