Re: Issues with lseek(2) on a block device

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Sun, Feb 25, 2024 at 04:41:37PM +0000, Sad Clouds wrote:
> 
> The whole idea of Unix was "everything is a file" and the sooner people
> get rid of magic ioctls the better.

But everything is *not*, actually, a file, and forcing things that
are not files into file-like shapes is not always the right design
choice.

As simple as possible, but no simpler.

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  Thor Lancelot Simon	                                     tls%panix.com@localhost

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