[Bug-ddrescue] Thanks !

[Hervé Bérenger]

Hi there,

Thanks a lot for this great soft, ddrescue !
I've been able to retrieve about 99% of the precious data contained by a 
very faulty HDD.

A short anecdote : the drive capacity was 400Go ; retrieving all the 
data was taking ages, so I looked at the code to check whether I could 
improve it and realized it used the "open" function to access the 
peripheral. "/Ah ah/", I thought, "/why not use fopen, which is said to 
be faster ?/". Certainly a bad idea ! I don't know what happened during 
the recompilation, but in spite of the _FILE_OFFSET_BITS flag my 
recompiled ddrescue was limited to files having a size less than 2^32 
bytes. Which I realized only after I had totally wasted the previously 
generated rescue journal :-(
Morality : I'll think twice next time I fancy I could be smarter than 
the software author (because most often I won't !)

Thanks again (I've just made a donation through paypal),

Hervé