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From: Todd C Miller <millert@courtesan.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: _BSD_OFF_T_ type long long
Date: 7 Apr 1997 11:56:58 -0600
Organization: Courtesan Consulting
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Sender: millert@home.courtesan.com
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Reply-To: millert@courtesan.com (Todd C Miller)
X-Newsposter: Pnews 4.0-test45 (19 Oct 96)
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From the keyboard of bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans):
> dd seek offsets are still broken. There is an obvious overflow bug
> in pos_in(), and 32-bit block numbers are used throughout, so when
> the block size is small, offsets are more limited than in the kernel.
You may wish to take a look at the changes I made to dd(1)
in OpenBSD. They fix the dd problems I was seeing...
- todd
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Todd C. Miller Sysadmin/Consultant Todd.Miller@courtesan.com