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Re: lseek() fails to seek on /dev/fd0 ('\\.\A:')


Hi!

Monday, 26 February, 2001 Corinna Vinschen cygwin@cygwin.com wrote:

CV> On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 09:03:11AM -0500, Earnie Boyd wrote:
>> Egor Duda wrote:
>> > 
>> > Anyway,  if  we  decide to be linux- and solaris- compatible here, the
>> > patch would be trivial.
>> > 
>> 
>> I thought the decision to be as Linux compatible as possible had already
>> been determined.  I suggest that someone submit the trivial patch.

CV> Indeed. I would be interested in the trivial patch as well.

well, almost trivial ;-)
It's not fully compatible with linux, as it doesn't allow seeking past
the  end  of  media (i think this is ok), and, alas, for NT only :( (i
don't  think  this  is ok, but i haven't found a way to get media size
under w9x)

Egor.            mailto:deo@logos-m.ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19

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