Can't view device files

[gotar]

Trying to view some device an error is reported:
Cannot view: not a regular file
In my opinion this should be only a warning and such operation could continue if desired as it worked a long time and a few versions before.

...

now it's forbidden

        if (!S_ISREG (st.st_mode)) {
            mc_close (fd);
            mcview_show_error (view, _(" Cannot view: not a regular file "));
            g_free (view->filename);
            view->filename = NULL;
            goto finish;
        }

and we have one problem - calculate filesize.
fstat return 0 for block devices...
as a workaround, we can use ftell like this

off_t mc_ftell (int fd)
{
    fseek(fd, 0L, SEEK_END);
    return ftell(fd);
}

[zaytsev]

Ticket #1968 has been marked as a duplicate of this ticket.