Never mind - people are inheretedly error prone creatures. ;-)
In your case shell has been passing file descriptor of the open file,
not pipe, so that seeking has been working properly.
Anyway, I think that your patch is useful, since it should allow using
disk devices.
-Maxim
Peter Pentchev wr
bject: Re: Creating Compressed Loop FS from stdin
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:14:48 +0200
From: Maxim Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Porta Software Ltd
To: Matteo Riondato <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is not going to work by design unfortu
sage nor my
follow-up in which I had forwarded mail delivery error message got through.
-Maxim
Original Message ----
Subject: Re: Creating Compressed Loop FS from stdin
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 17:14:48 +0200
From: Maxim Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Porta Software
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:55:43PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:20:16PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> > You don't check return code of the second lseek - I bet it fails. This
> > probably leads to creation of seemingly valid loop fs (i.e. with valid
> > header), but f
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:20:16PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> You don't check return code of the second lseek - I bet it fails. This
> probably leads to creation of seemingly valid loop fs (i.e. with valid
> header), but filled with zeroes or some random junk.
I said I'd tested it before post
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > It will not help, since AFAIK you can't seek stdin anyway, or even if I
> > am wrong and you can seek it to the end you will be unable to seek it
> > backward.
>
> I tested the patch before posting it, fully expecting to find that stdin
> really cannot be seeked (so
ve already replied to this message, but Matteo has some very strange
> settings of his smtp relay so that neither my original message nor my
> follow-up in which I had forwarded mail delivery error message got through.
>
> -Maxim
>
> Original Message
>
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 01:28:28PM +0100, Matteo Riondato wrote:
> Il giorno Gio, 30-12-2004 alle 12:34 +0200, Peter Pentchev ha scritto:
> > This could be fixed by the following patch. I'm CC'ing Maxim Sobolev,
> > the author of mkuzip(8); Maxim, do you have any objections to this patch?
>
> Tha
Il giorno Gio, 30-12-2004 alle 12:34 +0200, Peter Pentchev ha scritto:
> This could be fixed by the following patch. I'm CC'ing Maxim Sobolev,
> the author of mkuzip(8); Maxim, do you have any objections to this patch?
Thank you for the answer and fo the patch! I hope Maxim will commit it
soon.
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 11:15:40PM +0100, Matteo Riondato wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> I think you know what FreeSBIE
> is and that we use compressed loop filesystems for /usr and /var
> directories on our LiveCD.
> At the moment, to create compressed filesystems, we rely on
> sysutils/cloop-utils, but
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