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Re: lseek on BeOS (2)


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: lseek on BeOS (2)
Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 21:05:34 -0600
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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  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * 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             address@hidden
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