Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Jul 2005 00:25:17 -0700 | From | Chris Wedgwood <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] ramfs: pretend dirent sizes |
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:20:03AM +0200, J?rn Engel wrote:
> In both cases, what used to be a proper offset in one fd can be > complete bogus for another one.
Exactly.
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