happily messing up with raw devices (aka: lseek problems)

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Sep  7 19:42, Lapo Luchini wrote:
> Is is normal that Cygwin's lseek doesn't work on /dev/sda?
> What should I do?
> My own personal work-around would be to read all those 44 sectors (and
> discarding them), but I don't like that very much, is there some
> better/cleaner alternative?
> 
> If anyone wants to see the source code, it's all in my Monotone
> server, so either

I really thought you know better.

- "It doesn't work" is not helpful.  What's the error you get?
  What happens?

- What about a simple testcase(tm) to demonstrate the problem?


Corinna

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