>> On Dec 7 11:17, Loh, Joe wrote: >> We just installed the cygwin-inst-20051207.tar.bz2 snapshot. The >> output in //proc/partitions is the same as the Cygwin Kernel 1.5.18.
>> However, the lseek(SEEK_END) no longer works. When I rerun the "C" >> program it gave the following error. I even recompiled with the new >> snapshot just to make sure, still the same error. I have also >> attached the strace output for the lseekend. >> >> $ ./lseekend.exe /dev/sda >> lseek: Invalid argument > > Ouch. Thanks for the report. I have fixed a buggy condition which only allowed to seek to 1 byte below EOM in CVS. You should see the change in the next developers snapshot. > >> Here's the output from the snapshot: >> >> major minor #blocks name >> >> 8 0 78124095 sda >> 8 1 15358108 sda1 >> 8 2 104422 sda2 >> 8 3 16386300 sda3 > > The reason that /proc/partition contains wrong information is that the /proc/partition information uses an > old, deprecated IOCTL call to evaluate the disk size by # of cylinders, # of tracks per sektor, etc. I didn't fix that so far but it's not overly complicated, so stay tuned. Thank you. We will give the next snapshot a try. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/