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


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