lseek() returning Invalid Argument

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
Tue Sep 15 23:08:00 GMT 2009


gballey <galley <at> ace-co.com> writes:

> Anyone got an idea of what is going on here?

Yep.


Oh, you wanted to know what your bug is?

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> /* begin test.c */
> 
> #include <fcntl.h>
> #include <stdio.h>

Oops - no #include <unistd.h>.  lseek takes 64-bit type arguments, but without 
a declaration from the correct header, the compiler assumes it takes int 
arguments.  Try compiling with -Wall.

-- 
Eric Blake




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