Well, not negative, just large uint64_t numbers that would be negative
as off_t (int64_t).

E.g., dd if=/dev/kmem bs=1 iseek=0xfffff...foo count=8.  I think we
would like that to work.  I don't recall whether it does or not before
this change.

Best,
Conrad

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:08 AM, Alan Somers <asom...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Nope.  Do you mean negative offsets for the iseek argument?  I didn't
> know you could do that.
>
> On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Conrad Meyer <c...@freebsd.org> wrote:
>> Hi Alan,
>>
>> By any chance did you test this change with /dev/kmem and kernel
>> addresses ("negative" off_t values)?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Conrad
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