* Copyright (c) 1991 The Regents of the University of California.
* This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by
* Keith Muller of the University of California, San Diego and Lance
* Visser of Convex Computer Corporation.
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* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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* must display the following acknowledgement:
* This product includes software developed by the University of
* California, Berkeley and its contributors.
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static char sccsid
[] = "@(#)position.c 5.3 (Berkeley) 8/5/91";
* Position input/output data streams before starting the copy. Device type
* dependent. Seekable devices use lseek, and the rest position by reading.
* Seeking past the end of file can cause null blocks to be written to the
register int bcnt
, cnt
, nr
, warned
;
/* If not a character, pipe or tape device, try to seek on it. */
if (!(in
.flags
& (ISCHR
|ISPIPE
|ISTAPE
))) {
if (lseek(in
.fd
, (off_t
)(in
.offset
* in
.dbsz
), SEEK_CUR
) == -1)
err("%s: %s", in
.name
, strerror(errno
));
* Read the data. If a pipe, read until satisfy the number of bytes
* being skipped. No differentiation for reading complete and partial
* blocks for other devices.
for (bcnt
= in
.dbsz
, cnt
= in
.offset
, warned
= 0; cnt
;) {
if ((nr
= read(in
.fd
, in
.db
, bcnt
)) > 0) {
err("skip reached end of input");
* Input error -- either EOF with no more files, or I/O error.
* If noerror not set die. POSIX requires that the warning
* message be followed by an I/O display.
if (ddflags
& C_NOERROR
) {
warn("%s: %s", in
.name
, strerror(errno
));
err("%s: %s", in
.name
, strerror(errno
));
* If not a tape, try seeking on the file. Seeking on a pipe is
* going to fail, but don't protect the user -- they shouldn't
* have specified the seek operand.
if (!(out
.flags
& ISTAPE
)) {
(off_t
)out
.offset
* out
.dbsz
, SEEK_SET
) == -1)
err("%s: %s", out
.name
, strerror(errno
));
/* If no read access, try using mtio. */
if (out
.flags
& NOREAD
) {
t_op
.mt_count
= out
.offset
;
if (ioctl(out
.fd
, MTIOCTOP
, &t_op
) < 0)
err("%s: %s", out
.name
, strerror(errno
));
for (cnt
= 0; cnt
< out
.offset
; ++cnt
) {
if ((n
= read(out
.fd
, out
.db
, out
.dbsz
)) > 0)
err("%s: %s", out
.name
, strerror(errno
));
* If reach EOF, fill with NUL characters; first, back up over
* the EOF mark. Note, cnt has not yet been incremented, so
* the EOF read does not count as a seek'd block.
if (ioctl(out
.fd
, MTIOCTOP
, &t_op
) == -1)
err("%s: %s", out
.name
, strerror(errno
));
while (cnt
++ < out
.offset
)
if ((n
= write(out
.fd
, out
.db
, out
.dbsz
)) != out
.dbsz
)
err("%s: %s", out
.name
, strerror(errno
));