Re: [issue1632] Seek to end of file returns 136 on CD/DVD drives

["Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steve@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:08:49 +0000
"Alex Hornung \(via DragonFly issue tracker\)"
<bugs@crater.dragonflybsd.org> wrote:

> 
> Alex Hornung <ahornung@gmail.com> added the comment:
> 
> I've identified the issue. In devfs getattr vnop I'm doing:
> vap->va_bytes = vap->va_size = sizeof(struct devfs_node);
> and kern_lseek then does:
> new_offset = offset + vattr.va_size;
> 
> I'm not quite sure how to solve this. Should the size be set to the
> physical size if the device is a disk type? This would also result in
> fstat to return the physical size for a disk.

	The one place I know it is used is in ddrescue  where it is
expected to return the amount of data that will be read by reading the
device until EOF, which for a DVD would be the amount of data written on
the media but for a hard disk would be the physical size of the disk.

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