On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 08:24:50PM +0000, Alexander Best wrote: > one of the things i'm missing is an easy way to determine, whether a stream or > fd is seekable. i checked the dd(1) and hd(1) sources and those tools are > performing so much stuff just to find out if this is the case, and they still > are doing a very poor job.
Isn't the primary issue that FreeBSD doesn't properly report errors for lseek(2)? I think you should start from that and not hack around the fallout... Joerg _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
