On Tuesday 27 February 2001  9:37 pm, Ignatios Souvatzis wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:15:29PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > Following up on this idea, I've written the following test program.  I
> > believe the output of this should be a file consiting purely of 0's.  On
> > my machine this is not the case and I get:
> >
> > buzzard:/tmp [579] $ od -x seek-test
> > 0000000     0000    0000    0000    0000    0000    0000    0000    0000
> > *
> > 0017720     0000    0000    0000    0000    0000    0000    7800    6665
> > 0017740     6662    3764    6330    302c    6578    0066    0000    0000
> > 0017760     0000    0000    0000    0000    0000    0000    0000    0000
> > *
> > 0037620     0000    0000    0000    0000    2032    6f4e    7320    6375
> > 0037640     2068    0066    0000    0000    0000    0000    0000    0000
> > 0037660     0000    0000    0000    0000    0000    0000    0000    0000
> > *
> > etc.
> >
> > Does anyone else see problems like this?
>
> I've tried it on NetBSD/Amiga with a -1.5S kernel, and have seen only
> zeroes.

I've just tried it on both an arm32 and on i386 and see corruption (kernels 
built about 16th of feb)  I'm about to try the current kernels from this 
morning.

Cheers,
Chris