Awesome, thanks for the quick response! I’ll give this a go and let you know the results.
> On Nov 15, 2021, at 5:41 PM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > > On 11/15/21 10:37, Sudhip Nashi wrote: >> Turns out lseek is broken (or at least works differently) on macOS as well >> (https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2018-09/msg00054.html). Funny >> coincidence! I’ll take a better look later this week if I can and try to see >> what the exact problem is. > > Thanks, I think I see the problem now. > > Eventually macOS will likely get fixed to work around this lseek+SEEK_DATA > incompatibility (as FreeBSD, Solaris, etc. all do things the Linux way and > that's what I think will appear in the next POSIX), but in the meantime I > attempted to work around the portability issue by installing the attached > patch into Gnulib, and by syncing coreutils to the latest Gnulib. > > I don't use macOS so have not tested this. Please give it a try, either by > building from bleeding-edge coreutils on Savannah, or by building from the > tarball temporarily here: > > https://www.cs.ucla.edu/~eggert/coreutils-9.0.26-0f4d9.tar.gz > > Thanks.<0001-lseek-port-around-macOS-SEEK_DATA-glitch.patch>
