Re: Compatible fstat()

[linux-os (Dick Johnson)]

On Tue, 8 Nov 2005, Parag Warudkar wrote:

>
>>
>> I think it's just a syntax error...
>>
>>>> 	size = lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
>>                              |___________  Whence at the end
>>
>> ... will do fine on three different systems so far.
>>
>
> Yeah I corrected that before trying but still didn't work on Debian
> (2.6.8 kernel)...
> Running root, open successful but size is always zero - Strange..
>
> Parag

Also found that the returned value was -1 and errno was EOVERFLOW.
So, that doesn't work either!

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.
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