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From: colonel@gloria.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd
Subject: ESPIPE error in 4.2
Message-ID: <112@gloria.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-May-84 12:30:22 EDT
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Posted: Tue May  1 12:30:22 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 9-May-84 01:20:05 EDT
Organization: SUNY/Buffalo Computer Science
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[also, why can't I execute a character special file?]

In 4.2bsd, lseek() on a pipe seems to return EINVAL instead of ESPIPE.
This breaks things like

	echo abcde | tail +3c

Fortunately, it looks like a simple fix - change one word in
ufp_syscalls.c.

	Does anybody have any arguments AGAINST fixing it this way?
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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