On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:10:31 -0400, Patrick Donnelly <batr...@batbytes.com> wrote: > Hi List, > > I have a strange problem in a C program I wrote. I open a hard > disk character file (/dev/ad1) and attempt to write over the > entire disk. I expect the last write that would go beyond the > hard disk length (capacity) to return with an error but instead > the write succeeds. This happens for hundreds of gigabytes > beyond the file (hard drive) length. What could be wrong? (This > program works fine on Linux. The last write that would go > beyond the end of the hard drive returns with -1.) > > Thanks for any help,
Can we see the exact source code of the program? What you describe might work if the file has holes inside it. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
