svn commit: r322893 - head/bin/dd
Conrad Meyer
cem at freebsd.org
Fri Aug 25 17:20:17 UTC 2017
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 <asomers at 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 <cem at 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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