From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>
Cc: Petr Vandrovec <VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] read() from driverfs files can read more bytes
Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2002 20:18:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020208191824.GA561@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1124DDDD7FF9@vcnet.vc.cvut.cz> <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202071021280.25114-100000@segfault.osdlab.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0202071021280.25114-100000@segfault.osdlab.org>
Hi!
> Ok, I agree with your argument concerning read().
>
> Concerning reading/writing from offsets, it's up to the drivers for them
> to either support it or not. In the files I've done so far, I return 0 if
> show() is called with an offset. Which will give different results if you
> read byte-by-byte or an entire chunk.
>
> It makes the callbacks simpler, but it is not technically correct.
[snip solution]
Why not just say those files are character devices? It is okay for
character device to behave like crazy ;-).
Pavel
--
(about SSSCA) "I don't say this lightly. However, I really think that the U.S.
no longer is classifiable as a democracy, but rather as a plutocracy." --hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-08 21:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-07 18:15 Petr Vandrovec
2002-02-07 18:27 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-02-08 19:18 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
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2002-02-07 20:11 Petr Vandrovec
2002-02-07 20:21 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-02-07 20:26 ` Alexander Viro
2002-02-07 20:59 ` Patrick Mochel
2002-02-07 21:37 ` Alexander Viro
2002-02-07 18:11 Thomas Hood
2002-02-07 17:25 Petr Vandrovec
2002-02-07 17:43 ` Patrick Mochel
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