From 73711e47bbed29ee8242282a70a4b063fcc25349 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jim Meyering Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 07:50:04 +0000 Subject: *** empty log message *** --- old/fileutils/ChangeLog | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog index aabd14271..099b86360 100644 --- a/old/fileutils/ChangeLog +++ b/old/fileutils/ChangeLog @@ -1,7 +1,16 @@ -2001-11-27 Jim Meyering +2001-12-02 Jim Meyering * Version 4.1.3. + Don't emulate dd's skip=N for *all* character devices; lseek works + just fine on non-tape character devices like /dev/mem and /dev/kmem. + * src/dd.c (buggy_lseek_support) [__linux__]: Emulate `skip=N' + behavior using reads, not lseek for Linux tape devices (major == 9). + Kernel lseek support for tapes is broken, up to and including + linux-2.4.16. Reported by Herbert Xu. + +2001-11-27 Jim Meyering + * tests/ls/rt-1: Compare all lines of output. Update code to use `trap' and more up to date infrastructure. @@ -2506,7 +2515,7 @@ 2000-08-24 Jim Meyering - Put back the kluge. It's necessary after all. + Put back the kludge. It's necessary after all. * src/dd.c (buggy_lseek_support): New function. (skip): Use it. Frank Adler reported that although _llseek returns 0, lseek -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2