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

[Paul Eggert]

Albert Chin <address@hidden> writes:

> The program above works correctly on Solaris 9/SPARC.

Yes, it does appear to be a bug in AIX's treatement of those block
devices: you can't seek to their end.  I don't know of a workaround
(but then I don't use AIX.)  You should be able to work around the bug
with shred's --size option.