Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <199909151928.vaa26...@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Oliver > Fromme writes: > : It only works on two's-complement machines, though, but I'm not > : aware of any FreeBSD port to an architecture that doesn't use > : two's-complement numbers...

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oliver Fromme >writes: > : It only works on two's-complement machines, though, but I'm not > : aware of any FreeBSD port to an architecture that doesn't use > : two's-complement numbers... > > I'm not aware of any one's-co

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > It can go in after the freeze - it's a bit late to be asking now. :) I was guessing as much :) I didn't specifically see anyone requesting for these things in -STABLE, so I didn't really pay much attention to merging these things. It makes me wonde

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
It can go in after the freeze - it's a bit late to be asking now. :) > On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/dd/dd.c,v > > > > revision 1.17 > > date: 1999/06/19 19:49:32; author: green; state: Exp; lines: +25 -21

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Dan Nelson wrote: > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/dd/dd.c,v > > > revision 1.17 > date: 1999/06/19 19:49:32; author: green; state: Exp; lines: +25 -21 > Miscellaneous dd(1) changes: mainly fixing variable types (size_t, > ssize_t,

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > It can go in after the freeze - it's a bit late to be asking now. :) I was guessing as much :) I didn't specifically see anyone requesting for these things in -STABLE, so I didn't really pay much attention to merging these things. It makes me wond

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
It can go in after the freeze - it's a bit late to be asking now. :) > On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Dan Nelson wrote: > > > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/dd/dd.c,v > > > > revision 1.17 > > date: 1999/06/19 19:49:32; author: green; state: Exp; lines: +25 -21

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Dan Nelson wrote: > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/dd/dd.c,v > > revision 1.17 > date: 1999/06/19 19:49:32; author: green; state: Exp; lines: +25 -21 > Miscellaneous dd(1) changes: mainly fixing variable types (size_t, > ssize_t, of

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread Warner Losh
In message <199909151928.vaa26...@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> Oliver Fromme writes: : It only works on two's-complement machines, though, but I'm not : aware of any FreeBSD port to an architecture that doesn't use : two's-complement numbers... I'm not aware of any one's-complement machine that

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Oliver Fromme writes: : It only works on two's-complement machines, though, but I'm not : aware of any FreeBSD port to an architecture that doesn't use : two's-complement numbers... I'm not aware of any one's-complement machine that was manufacture after about 1980.

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
Bakul Shah wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > [...] > Let me say it another way. The bugfix should be accepted and > another PR be filed that says there needs to be a constant > defining the largest possible off_t value. Also note that > traditionally Unix does not define max values for every

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread Bakul Shah
> date: 1999/06/19 19:49:32; author: green; state: Exp; lines: +25 -21 > Miscellaneous dd(1) changes: mainly fixing variable types (size_t, > ssize_t, off_t, int, u_int64_t, etc.). dd(1) should now work properly > with REALLY big amounts of data. > > Should be a -stable candidate by now (3 mont

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread Oliver Fromme
Bakul Shah wrote in list.freebsd-hackers: > [...] > Let me say it another way. The bugfix should be accepted and > another PR be filed that says there needs to be a constant > defining the largest possible off_t value. Also note that > traditionally Unix does not define max values for every

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread Bakul Shah
> date: 1999/06/19 19:49:32; author: green; state: Exp; lines: +25 -21 > Miscellaneous dd(1) changes: mainly fixing variable types (size_t, > ssize_t, off_t, int, u_int64_t, etc.). dd(1) should now work properly > with REALLY big amounts of data. > > Should be a -stable candidate by now (3 mon

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 15), Bakul Shah said: > PR bin/6509 (submitted in May 1998) already has a patch to fix this > but it was rejected because off_t was assumed by the bug > fixer/submitter to be a quat (int64_t). I can't even get an IDE disk > below 2G byte easily! And we are still years awa

Re: Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 15), Bakul Shah said: > PR bin/6509 (submitted in May 1998) already has a patch to fix this > but it was rejected because off_t was assumed by the bug > fixer/submitter to be a quat (int64_t). I can't even get an IDE disk > below 2G byte easily! And we are still years aw

Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread Bakul Shah
PR bin/6509 (submitted in May 1998) already has a patch to fix this but it was rejected because off_t was assumed by the bug fixer/submitter to be a quat (int64_t). I can't even get an IDE disk below 2G byte easily! And we are still years away from zettabyte disks. So I don't see the point of b

Bug in dd seeking beyond 2G

1999-09-15 Thread Bakul Shah
PR bin/6509 (submitted in May 1998) already has a patch to fix this but it was rejected because off_t was assumed by the bug fixer/submitter to be a quat (int64_t). I can't even get an IDE disk below 2G byte easily! And we are still years away from zettabyte disks. So I don't see the point of bl