[lug] Linux syscall 19 lseek() produces unexpected output

[Lori Reed]

I was about to hypothesize the following, then I found the documentation.

"creat() is equivalent to open() with flags equal to 
O_CREAT|O_WRONLY|O_TRUNC"

Your file is being truncated to a length of 0 (zero).

http://linux.die.net/man/2/open

L.

Carl Hamlin wrote:
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> Lori Reed wrote:
>> Why assembly rather than C?
>> L.
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> I contract to do custom programming. Sometimes it's on older embedded
> platforms. My background is in X86 and it's what I do best. I'm trying
> to get a grasp on the Linux kernel syscall convention.
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