lseek()

Richard B. Johnson (root@chaos.analogic.com)
Thu, 10 Dec 1998 20:59:29 -0500 (EST)

Note:
lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_SET) pretends that it really works on a
SCSI tape drive on glibc 2.0.6. This can cause undetected
bugs.

I suggest that it return -1 with errno set to EBADF as
documented.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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