GNU bug report logs - #13391
dd silently ignores lseek error

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Neil Klopfenstein <neil.klopfenstein <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 18:24:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
Cc: Neil Klopfenstein <neil.klopfenstein <at> gmail.com>, 13391-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13391: dd silently ignores lseek error
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 20:58:02 -0800

On 01/08/2013 05:14 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:

> Worth applying the attached?

Looks good, except I would avoid calling lseek on
STDOUT_FILENO unless oflag=seekable is set.  Just being
conservative: the effect of lseek on unseekable files is
implementation-defined.
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