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

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Hornung (via DragonFly issue tracker) wrote:
> Alex Hornung <ahornung@gmail.com> added the comment:
>
> For reference:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/sys_stat.h.html
> So the standard does not specify what st_size has to be for devices. 
>
> Any opinion on this matter?

If we have the size of the device in question (i.e. disk), it won't hurt to set it.  Else maybe set 0 to avoid confusion?  Alternatively seek to EOF could fail.

cheers
 simon