Re: Writes to Hard Disk Going Beyond Capacity

[Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com>]

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Giorgos Keramidas
<keramida () ceid upatras gr> wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:10:31 -0400, Patrick Donnelly <batrick () batbytes com> wrote:
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I have a strange problem in a C program I wrote. I open a hard
> > disk character file (/dev/ad1) and attempt to write over the
> > entire disk. I expect the last write that would go beyond the
> > hard disk length (capacity) to return with an error but instead
> > the write succeeds.  This happens for hundreds of gigabytes
> > beyond the file (hard drive) length. What could be wrong? (This
> > program works fine on Linux. The last write that would go
> > beyond the end of the hard drive returns with -1.)
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
>
> Can we see the exact source code of the program?  What you
> describe might work if the file has holes inside it.

http://www.batbytes.com/destroy

-- 
- Patrick Donnelly
_______________________________________________
Sent through the nmap-dev mailing list
http://cgi.insecure.org/mailman/listinfo/nmap-dev
Archived at http://seclists.org/nmap-dev/