Date: Sun, 12 Nov 95 13:06:36 -0800 From: Bakul Shah <bakul@netcom.com> To: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux's lseek vs freebsd's lseek Message-ID: <199511122106.NAA21837@netcom22.netcom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Nov 95 12:43:37 PST." <199511122043.MAA01434@rah.star-gate.com>
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> (int)fp->f_offset += (int)uap->offset; > ^^^^ ^^^^ > The question is what is the implication of doing a signed addition as > supposed to an unsigned addition as it is in the original file. Huh? f_offset & uap->offset are of type quad_t, which is a signed quantity and -ve offsets are perfectly reasonable when you seek relative to file-end or current-position.
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