-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 8/18/2007 5:02 PM: > Hi Eric, > > lseek on BeOS has another deficiency: In some cases it can modify the > file offset although the same call fails. POSIX says this should not happen. > But I don't think it's worth working around it in lib/lseek.c.
Reasonable enough, since seeking to a negative offset generally implies a software bug in the caller, as opposed to a system error. > Here is > instead a proposed workaround for the unit test: > > 2007-08-18 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * tests/test-lseek.c (main): Disable a test for BeOS. > * doc/functions/lseek.texi: Document the BeOS bug. OK to commit. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGx7N+84KuGfSFAYARAo4TAJ9OQBqOpbA1lbm+DZCfvfVkxWxdhQCeKEcy lT8FLoSJ5jwdpQlWLHNOoBs= =ZdRV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
