From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [9fans] seeking for the truth From: Dave Lukes To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1076607337.3329.70.camel@zevon> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 17:35:37 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e01a32e4-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > unseekable synthetic files typically are length 0 (because they have > no particular length), or tiny (pipes have a hack that stat shows what's in them) The man is, as usual, correct: I had my mind too far into a un*x model of files/devices/pipes only. My apologies. > so change the test to declare seekable only if the file is big enough > to warrant it. :-)) > one hack deserves another. then we can get back > to trying to get a version of ghostscript that doesn't blow up on > recent pdf/ps. Amen. Dave.