Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 04:22:25AM +0100, Roland Illig wrote:
> 
>>$ cat ./sh | ./sh -
>>sh: Syntax error: "(" unexpected
>>
>>Since stdin is a pipe here, it is not seekable. Not even to (0,SEEK_SET) 
>>when the file pointer is already there. Therefore the old, confusing 
>>error message is printed.
> 
> 
> One thing we discussed was shar archives on tapes. You don't want to
> seek on those :-)

Are they seekable at all? If yes, wouldn't it be handled by the kernel? 
Remember: I'm just seeking four bytes forth and back.

Roland