Messages in this thread | | | From | "Petr Vandrovec" <> | Date | Thu, 7 Feb 2002 21:11:10 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] read() from driverfs files can read more bytes |
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On 7 Feb 02 at 10:27, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> Concerning reading/writing from offsets, it's up to the drivers for them > to either support it or not. In the files I've done so far, I return 0 if > show() is called with an offset. Which will give different results if you > read byte-by-byte or an entire chunk. > > It makes the callbacks simpler, but it is not technically correct.
What about extremelly nice stuff Al Viro made for us in fs/seq_file.c ? It made putting stuff into procfs really easy... Petr Vandrovec vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
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