From: Phil Auld <pauld@egenera.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: viro@math.psu.edu, marcelo@connectiva.com.br,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19 revert block_llseek behavior to standard
Date: Mon, 12 Aug 2002 14:06:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020812140633.H27650@vienna.EGENERA.COM> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1029172448.16424.178.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>; from alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk on Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 06:14:08PM +0100
Rumor has it that on Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 06:14:08PM +0100 Alan Cox said:
> On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 17:36, Phil Auld wrote:
> > > Political I don't see any. Technical - have you verified each of our
> > > block drivers behaves correctly when given an offset over its side, and
> > > that it correctly fails on a 32bit block wrap.
> > >
> >
> > No, but how did it work prior to 2.4.11?
>
> Did it work correctly - the answer I believe is - no it didnt.
>
>
It may not have worked in all cases but it did observe standard
specified behavior.
Phil
> Alan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-12 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-08-12 16:06 Phil Auld
2002-08-12 16:20 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-12 16:36 ` Phil Auld
2002-08-12 17:14 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-12 17:57 ` Phil Auld
2002-08-12 18:06 ` Alan Cox
2002-08-12 18:14 ` Phil Auld
2002-08-12 18:06 ` Phil Auld [this message]
2002-08-12 16:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2002-08-12 17:14 ` Phil Auld
2002-08-13 8:13 ` Helge Hafting
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2002-08-12 22:25 ` Peter Chubb
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