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From: levy@ttrdc.UUCP (Daniel R. Levy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Character special files cannot seek? (was Re: Seek on a pipe)
Message-ID: <1791@ttrdc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 18:39:26 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 30 18:39:26 1987
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In article <633@haddock.UUCP>, karl@haddock.UUCP (Karl Heuer) writes:
< "isatty" is not sufficient; character-special files in general are incapable
< of seeking.

It's my impression from experimentation on System V that at least some
raw disk drives can be lseek'ed [lsought? :-) ] upon.  Is this mistaken?
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