No... this is the full text from that page. If there is an update please
tell me where it was published.
[EOVERFLOW]
The file is a regular file, nbyte is greater than 0, the
starting position is before the end-of-file and the starting
position is greater than or equal to the offset maximum
established in the open file description associated with
fildes.
>
> The "offset maximum associated with the file" is the fancy way of saying
> "current size of the file".
But they do talk about "starting position is before the end-of-file"
which
may be different from "the offset maximum established in the open file
description associated with fildes".
Thinking more about it, there must be (at least one ) typo there.
One possible interpretation is that "the endind pisition is greater than
.."
and the "maximum established" refers to file system or device
limitations.
(eg. if offset+nbyte > 2^31 on 2 file system that is limited to 2 GB).
Another possibility - they really mean non-regular files. There is no
explicit EOF (eg, on /dev/fd0) but you try to access beyond the physical
size of the device.
Itai
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Itai Nahshon nahshon@actcom.co.il
Also nahshon@vnet.ibm.com
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