On 11/06/2015 11:54 PM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
On Mon, Nov 02, 2015 at 05:13:14PM +0800, Xiao Guangrong wrote:
lseek can not work for all block devices as the man page says:
| Some devices are incapable of seeking and POSIX does not specify
| which devices must support lseek().
This patch tries to add the support on Linux by using BLKGETSIZE64
ioctl
Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <guangrong.xiao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
On which cases is this patch necessary? Do you know any examples of
Linux block devices that won't work with lseek(SEEK_END)?
To be honest, i have not checked all block device, this patch was made
based on the man page. However, i do not mind drop this patch (and maybe
other patches) to make this pachset smaller. BLKGETSIZE64 can be added
in the future if we meet such device.
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