Ray Stell <stellr@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Curious how you get to an OS kernel bug from these writes? Note the two successive lseek's returning the same result. With a write() in between that should have extended the file, that is clearly the wrong answer. Subsequent discussion reveals that Dan is running > Linux pike 2.6.5-7.244-smp #1 SMP Mon Dec 12 18:32:25 UTC 2005 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > SLES 9 suse linux enterprise 9 service pack 3 which is probably overdue for an update ... regards, tom lane