New submission from Kuberan Naganathan <kubi...@gmail.com>: The lseek function can legitimately return a code less then zero ( except for -1 ) when seeking beyond an offset of 2^63. This behavior should be supported in order to permit the python interpreter to seek in files with valid data at locations greater than or equal to 2^63. This can happen in a sparse file or in the /proc file system address space file.
The fix is simple. In the posix_lseek function check for result != -1 instead of checking for result < 0 in return code checks of the value returned by lseek. ---------- components: IO messages: 140222 nosy: Kuberan.Naganathan priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Incorrect handling of return codes in the posix_lseek function in posixmodule.c versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12545> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
