Creating Compressed Loop FS from stdin

[Maxim Sobolev]

Never mind - people are inheretedly error prone creatures. ;-)

In your case shell has been passing file descriptor of the open file, 
not pipe, so that seeking has been working properly.

Anyway, I think that your patch is useful, since it should allow using 
disk devices.

-Maxim

Peter Pentchev wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:55:43PM +0200, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> 
>>On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:20:16PM +0200, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>>
>>>You don't check return code of the second lseek - I bet it fails. This 
>>>probably leads to creation of seemingly valid loop fs (i.e. with valid 
>>>header), but filled with zeroes or some random junk.
>>
>>I said I'd tested it before posting it the first time.  It works.
>>It creates a valid loop fs, containing exactly the files that are in
>>the input ISO image.
> 
> 
> Errr.  Oops.
> 
> Sorry everyone - the patch does not really work.  I keep testing it with
> a *file* passed on mkuzip's stdin, all the while feeling surprised that
> lseek() works on the pipe... when there is no pipe at all :(
> 
> I just tested it with a real pipe, and of course, it failed.  Again,
> sorry for wasting your time; I guess it'd be best if I tucked in for
> the holidays now :(
> 
> G'luck,
> Peter
>