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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!unidui!flyer!flatlin!bad From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Subject: Re: Repeat of the question about VFS and VOP_SEEK() Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1992 00:49:33 GMT Message-ID: <BwLoyL.85z@flatlin.ka.sub.org> References: <b3co03lsb3LE00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> <1992Oct20.193544.2360@fcom.cc.utah.edu> Lines: 14 In <1992Oct20.193544.2360@fcom.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) writes: >I suspect this is what should be happening when you >seek on a special device... the lseek should return a -1 with errno >set to EIO/EINVAL/ESPIPE/EBADFD (EINVAL seems most reasonable). EBADFD is reserved for an invalid file descriptor beeing passed to a system call (as opposed to EINVAL). EOPNOTSUPPORT would be more appropriate for obvious reasons. -- Christoph Badura --- bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org AIX is a better... is a better... is a better... OpenSystem. IBM Rep at GUUG Symposium '92