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Date:      Sat, 2 Mar 1996 11:36:55 +1030 (CST)
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
To:        sos@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, bde@zeta.org.au, hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Linuxulator unhappiness...
Message-ID:  <199603020106.LAA04108@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199603011244.NAA27917@ra.dkuug.dk> from "sos@FreeBSD.org" at Mar 1, 96 01:44:32 pm

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sos@FreeBSD.org stands accused of saying:
> > > This is probably caused by bogus types and overflow bugs in linux_file.c
> > > function linux_lseek():
> > > 
> > > 1) the offset is declared as `unsigned long' in `struct linux_seek_args'.
> > > File offsets should normally be signed to avoid problems like the current
> > > one (that's why off_t is signed).
> > > 
> 
> exactly, just  change the unsigned long to a signed long...

Ta; that gets around the problem for now.  Now on to see what else doesn't
work 8)

> Soren Schmidt             (sos@FreeBSD.org)             FreeBSD Core Team

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