Re: Compatible fstat()

On Nov 8, 2005, at 1:49 PM, Theodore Ts'o wrote:

e2fsprogs falls back to using a
binary search using SEEK_SET to find the device size.

Binary search of what? I tried to read the relevant code in getsize.c but apart from suspecting that the binary search thing might be specific to ext2fs I didn't quite understand what's going on in the code. (Will it work irrespective of the file system presence on the device?)

Thanks
Parag

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