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From: andy@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu (Andy Fyfe)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general
Subject: end of file when writing to the floppy
Message-ID: <8891@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 15 Dec 88 07:45:30 GMT
Reply-To: andy@csvax.caltech.edu (Andy Fyfe)
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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It seems that write(2) continues to succeed (advancing the file pointer
as returned by lseek(2)) even when writing well past the end of the disk.
Read(2) returns an end-of-file when it should.  Why is this?  I'm running
version 3.5 software.  This has destroyed the multi-volume feature of
gnu tar (unless I'm missing something).

Andy Fyfe
            andy@csvax.caltech.edu
            wjafyfe@caltech.bitnet
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