Limits on 4.2BSD lseek(2)?

[John McMamee]

> Here is a snatch of the code (from ./misc/article.c in the distribution):
> 
> 		...
>                 content = dofetch(*argv);
>                 if (content.dptr == 0) {
>                         printf("%s: No such key\n", *argv);
>                         continue;
>                 }
>                 if (lseek(fd, *(long *) content.dptr, 0) < 0)
>                         continue;

This looks like a problem I've had before.  The dbm library does not
align the data to a word boundary, thus you can't always access it
directly.  My solution has been to copy the data returned by dbm into
my own structure or buffer and then use that.
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