/dev/drum on Sun

[Richard Tobin]

If I try to read, say, 1000 bytes from /dev/drum under Sun O.S. 3.2, the
read returns 1024, and 1024 bytes have indeed been read in, overwriting
whatever was there.  Is this a bug?  Neither read(2) nor drum(4) mentions
this possibility.
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