Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 15 Oct 2001 21:01:17 -0700 (PDT) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [CFT][PATCH] large /proc/mounts and friends |
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On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Alexander Viro wrote: > > I don't. ->f_pos is an entry number. That's it.
Ahh, ok, I did indeed misread your code. Fair enough, then that's pretty much equivalent to what I was asking for.
The reason I like sub-positions is that I worry that some application does an lseek() to a position it already held earlier.
But you're probably right that it doesn't really matter, and as we really have "pipe" semantics we might as well dis-allow any lseek except to the beginning (I know that there have been apps out there that avoid re-opening /proc files by lseek'ing to zero and re-reading - they may not be common enough to matter, though).
Ok, I'll re-read your patch with this in mind. But it sounds like I'm going to approve of it with this background...
Linus
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