* [PATCH] 2.5.31 revert block_llseek to standard behavior
@ 2002-08-12 16:15 Phil Auld
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From: Phil Auld @ 2002-08-12 16:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: vire; +Cc: torvalds, linux-kernel
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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