On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Brock Noland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <snip> > I agree that I would expect if the file is seekable and seek fails, dd > would exit. But here it looks like we just cannot seek that large of > an offset?
I implemented something that seeks in portions and it results in the same error near the end of the file. _llseek(0, 10000000, 0xbfe39670, SEEK_CUR) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument) As such my original thought was wrong... Respectfully, Brock _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils