On Thu, Feb 22, 2024 at 08:13:28AM -0500, Mouse wrote:
> >>> lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END);
> [on a disk device]
>
> >> [...]
> > [...]
> > This is such a buggy behaviour that [...]
>
> I wouldn't call it buggy, not unless there is a spec that it's supposed
> to conform to that says otherwise (even if
>>> lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END);
[on a disk device]
>> [...]
> [...]
> This is such a buggy behaviour that [...]
I wouldn't call it buggy, not unless there is a spec that it's supposed
to conform to that says otherwise (even if the "spec" is just an
author's description of intent), which is something
Hello, thanks to everyone who responded with their suggestions. Using
various non-portable ioctls I can device size on most platforms, for
both block and raw devices.
This is more convoluted than a single lseek() call, but it is what it
is. If anyone wants to do something similar, then the
mlel...@serpens.de (Michael van Elst) writes:
>But it also does not work for wedges or device mapper volumes
>(zfs vol probably fail too) as these don't implement the
>used internal ioctl for disk devices. At least that part
>would be easy to fix, but of questionable value.
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