Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Mon, 12 Aug 2002 12:15:04 -0400 | From | Phil Auld <> | Subject | [PATCH] 2.5.31 revert block_llseek to standard behavior |
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Hi Al,
Same patch against the 2.5.31 tree.
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.
--- fs/block_dev.c.orig Mon Aug 12 09:25:40 2002 +++ fs/block_dev.c Mon Aug 12 09:26:14 2002 @@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ offset += file->f_pos; } retval = -EINVAL; - if (offset >= 0 && offset <= size) { + if (offset >= 0) { if (offset != file->f_pos) { file->f_pos = offset; file->f_version = ++event;
Thanks,
Phil
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