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SEEK_END on raw devices

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Subject: SEEK_END on raw devices
From: Shesha Sreenivasamurthy <shesha@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2004 10:53:08 -0800
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Hi All.,
If dev is a raw device, then
lseek64(dev,0,SEEK_END) returns 0 instead of size of the disk.
Why is that? Is there a solution for this ? PLease let me know if any.
Thanks
Shesha



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