On Thu Nov 17 11, Dieter BSD wrote: > > lseek() on a tape drive does not return an error, nor does it > > actually do anything. > > IIRC some tape drives can seek, while others cannot. > Vague memories that it is supposed to be possible to put a > filesystem on a DECtape and mount the filesystem.
or how about the following: 1) if the file argument we're seeking on is a tape drive, just do a regular seek operation. 2) afterwards use ftell() to verify that the seek REALLY happend. if it didn't, return -1 and set errno = EBADF. cheers. alex > > It might be that FreeBSD doesn't currently support seeking > on a tape, but we shouldn't paint ourselves into a corner > by assuming that it is fundimentally impossible. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
