On 6/19/19 12:42 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
Maybe we should relax the cases we do read() for,
and try to seek in block/character special files,
falling back to read() where that fails?
Sure, that's easy enough. I installed the attached patch and am marking
this bug report as done.
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On 19/06/19 09:20, Szőts Ákos wrote:
> Dear List members,
>
> I've recently discovered that od "--skip-bytes" feature doesn't
> actually seek into the file but rather it reads everything from the
> very beginning until the given offset is reached.
>
> This can be problematic in two cases:
> -
Dear List members,
I've recently discovered that od "--skip-bytes" feature doesn't
actually seek into the file but rather it reads everything from the
very beginning until the given offset is reached.
This can be problematic in two cases:
- when speed matters, and
- when parts of the file is
