Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:05:47 +0000 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/15] Introduce noop_llseek() |
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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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