Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19 revert block_llseek behavior to standard | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 12 Aug 2002 17:20:57 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 17:06, 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.
Political I don't see any. Technical - have you verified each of our block drivers behaves correctly when given an offset over its side, and that it correctly fails on a 32bit block wrap.
I suspect we should still fail it with the allowed error code to be safe in 2.4
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