[issue12545] Incorrect handling of return codes in the posix_lseek function in posixmodule.c

[Kuberan Naganathan]

Kuberan Naganathan <kubiyak at gmail.com> added the comment:

Im most familiar with solaris.  Atleast on solaris lseek interprets its
signed arg as the unsigned value with the same bit pattern.  I cannot be
certain that this is common across other operating systems.
On Jul 13, 2011 8:09 AM, "Antoine Pitrou" <report at bugs.python.org> wrote:
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> Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:
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>> In addition I would like the posix_lseek function to accept a value
>> larger than 2^63 as a seek offset
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> How would it work? The C lseek() takes a signed (64-bit) offset as
argument, so we would have to call it multiple times anyway.
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<p>Im most familiar with solaris.  Atleast on solaris lseek interprets its signed arg as the unsigned value with the same bit pattern.  I cannot be certain that this is common across other operating systems.  </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jul 13, 2011 8:09 AM, &quot;Antoine Pitrou&quot; &lt;<a href="mailto:report at bugs.python.org">report at bugs.python.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br type="attribution">&gt; <br>&gt; Antoine Pitrou &lt;<a href="mailto:pitrou at free.fr">pitrou at free.fr</a>&gt; added the comment:<br>
&gt; <br>&gt;&gt; In addition I would like the posix_lseek function to accept a value<br>&gt;&gt; larger than 2^63 as a seek offset<br>&gt; <br>&gt; How would it work? The C lseek() takes a signed (64-bit) offset as argument, so we would have to call it multiple times anyway.<br>
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