[perl #122263] Seek after write on block device fails

On Thu Jul 10 17:01:20 2014, 2bfjdsla52kztwejndzdstsxl9athp@gmail.com wrote:
> This has nothing to do with perl.
> 
> > Trying to seek and write to a block device (directly to the raw USB disk)
> > fails with "Invalid Argument".
> 
> 
> > 17275 perl     CALL  write(0x3,0x55c7a558000,0x1)
> > 17275 perl     RET   write -1 errno 22 Invalid argument
> 
> Raw disk device I/O must be block aligned.  Writing a single byte
> will always fail (except in the unlikely case that the disk has
> a block size of 1).

And so, rejecting this ticket.

Tony

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• [perl #122263] Seek after write on block device fails by Tony Cook via RT