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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/15] Introduce noop_llseek()
    Jan Blunck wrote:
    > The noop_llseek() is a llseek() operation that filesystems can use that
    > don't want to support seeking (leave the file->f_pos untouched) but still
    > want to let the syscall itself to succeed.

    This is weird behaviour: if you want to allow llseek() to succeed but
    don't really support seeking, why does the device even care about the
    value of file->f_pos?

    -- Jamie


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