Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 13 Aug 2002 10:13:14 +0200 | From | Helge Hafting <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19 revert block_llseek behavior to standard |
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Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 12:06:59PM -0400, Phil Auld wrote: > > Hi Al, > > I think this falls under the VFS umbrella, but I may be wrong. > > > > Below is a fix to make block_llseek behave as specified in the Single Unix Spec. v3. > > (http://www.unix-systems.org/single_unix_specification/). It's extremely trivial but > > may have political baggage. > > Have you tested when you actually seek over the size of a block device? > Stupid standards aside: what is the purpose of this? blockdevices won't > grow bigger if you seek beyond them.. > True for a disk - but will all blockdevices be like that forever? Extending a ram disk might be useful. Or something looped to a regular file.
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