Subject: RE: bug#17149: shred - tape data

From: Rupert Russell <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 13:12:12 +0000

Sorry, but curiosity got the better of me and I found myself Googling for lseek(4, 0, SEEK_SET)                   

And somehow I arrived here, 

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=69630

Seems a chap called Paul Eggert has discussed lseek and zero's with tape drives once before.
I was also interested that dd is mentioned in the same breath, and it was a failing script using dd, that led me to shred in the 1st place....although that failure was probably unrelated.

What busy chaps you've been.

Rupert Russell
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