From: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dd of=blkdev seek=123 -> EINVAL ??
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 03:29:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011217032916.C1145@mea-ext.zmailer.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011217030028.B1145@mea-ext.zmailer.org>
In-Reply-To: <20011217030028.B1145@mea-ext.zmailer.org>; from matti.aarnio@zmailer.org on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:00:28AM +0200
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:00:28AM +0200, Matti Aarnio wrote:
> With recent dd (4.0p) and 2.4.17rc1 an attempt to write (with DD)
> into a block-device yields EINVAL error.
With dd 4.1.3 the problem no longer exists.
That newer version does fstat() on file, and notices that
it is, indeed, a device.
End of problem.
But why I am seeing mysterious total hangs of this kernel is
another story, and probably related to memory allocation...
/Matti Aarnio
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