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Bug #8352
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stat(2) man page needs to describe difference between stat() and fstat() when working on character special files
Status:
New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
-
Category:
manpage - manual pages
Start date:
2017-06-07
Due date:
% Done:
0%
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Difficulty:
Medium
Tags:
needs-triage
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Description
As regression introduced in #6866 (and fixed in #8108) has shown, the behavior of fstat() on character special files is counter-intuitive - one needs to fopen() first, and then use stat() to find the st_size.
Currently, stat(2) tries to mention that, but it really could be improved:
st_size
For regular files, this is the address of the end of the
file. For block special or character special, this is not
defined. See also pipe(2).
Related issues
Updated by Yuri Pankov about 5 years ago
- Related to Bug #6866: zdb -l should return non-zero if it fails to find any label added
Updated by Yuri Pankov about 5 years ago
- Related to Bug #8108: zdb -l fails to read labels 2 and 3 added
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