Re: fdatasync() error in shred from coreutils-5.2.1 on AIX 5.2

[Paul Eggert]

Albert Chin <address@hidden> writes:

>   245772: kwrite(3, "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX".., 12288)  = 12288

It appears that kwrite is not failing, even though we must be writing
past the end of the disk at this point.  This sounds like it could be
a bug in the /dev/lv00 drivers.

shred should try "lseek (fd, 0, SEEK_END)": did that fail too?
It wasn't in your truss extract.

Do you get the same failure when you write to a raw device?

Is there some approved-by-AIX method to find out the size of a device
like /dev/lv00?