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Date:      Tue, 31 Mar 1998 01:53:05 +0200
From:      Kent Boortz <kent@erlang.ericsson.se>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        kent@erlang.ericsson.se
Subject:   lseek bug?
Message-ID:  <19980331015305F.kent@erlang.ericsson.se>
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In FreeBSD 2.2.5 lseek moves the file position without any error
checks. If the resulting position is negative we have the problem that
the result value -1 can mean two things, that there was an error or
that the file position was set to -1 and no error. We have to clear
errno before the call and examine errno after the call to find out if
there was an error or not.

If the resulting position is to be negative, Linux and Solaris will
preserve the file position before the call to lseek and return an
error.

Is this a bug in FreeBSD or a different interpretations of the POSIX
standard?

/kgb


int
lseek(p, uap, retval)
        struct proc *p;
        register struct lseek_args *uap;
        int *retval;
{
        struct ucred *cred = p->p_ucred;
        register struct filedesc *fdp = p->p_fd;
        register struct file *fp;
        struct vattr vattr;
        int error;

        if ((u_int)uap->fd >= fdp->fd_nfiles ||
            (fp = fdp->fd_ofiles[uap->fd]) == NULL)
                return (EBADF);
        if (fp->f_type != DTYPE_VNODE)
                return (ESPIPE);
        switch (uap->whence) {
        case L_INCR:
                fp->f_offset += uap->offset;
                break;
        case L_XTND:
                error=VOP_GETATTR((struct vnode *)fp->f_data, &vattr, cred, p);
                if (error)
                        return (error);
                fp->f_offset = uap->offset + vattr.va_size;
                break;
        case L_SET:
                fp->f_offset = uap->offset;
                break;
        default:
                return (EINVAL);
        }
        *(off_t *)retval = fp->f_offset;
        return (0);
}

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