Re: dd of=blkdev seek=123 -> EINVAL ??

Matti Aarnio (matti.aarnio@zmailer.org)
Mon, 17 Dec 2001 03:29:16 +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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