"Theodoros V. Kalamatianos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If the last output block is not obs-sized I think it is logical to > asume that no seeking/padding should happen afterwards. But I am not > sure what should happen if the block is obs-sized (i.e. a full > output block).
For lack of a better alternative I'd say that if the last output block is partial, it shouldn't be appended to with obseek=,N; but if it is a full block, it should be appended to. Or am I missing the point? > To seek/pad the output lseek is not enough - you have to actually > write something for the file to expand to the new size. Or you can call ftruncate (for regular files anyway). This is related to the XCU ERN 64 issue I mentioned previously. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
