Re: 2.5.70 lockup while write()ing to /dev/hda1

From: Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de)
Date: Wed Aug 06 2003 - 08:38:43 EST


Michael Buesch <fsdeveloper@yahoo.de> writes:

|> On Wednesday 06 August 2003 14:32, lode leroy wrote:
|> > main()
|> > {
|> > int f = open("/dev/hda1", O_RDWR);
|> > char buffer[8192];
|> > for(i=0;1;i++) {
|> > printf("%d\r", i);
|> > write(f, buffer, sizeof(buffer);
|>
|> Shouldn't this be:
|> write(f, buffer, sizeof(buffer) / sizeof(buffer[0]));

sizeof(char) == 1, always and everywhere.

Andreas.

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