From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Phil Auld <pauld@egenera.com>
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 17:46:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020812174634.A10106@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020812120659.B27650@vienna.EGENERA.COM>; from pauld@egenera.com on Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 12:06:59PM -0400
On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 12:06:59PM -0400, Phil Auld wrote:
> Hi Al,
> I think this falls under the VFS umbrella, but I may be wrong.
>
> 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.
Have you tested when you actually seek over the size of a block device?
Stupid standards aside: what is the purpose of this? blockdevices won't
grow bigger if you seek beyond them..
Did any Linux implementation ever follow the standard (as you rewrite
reverse)? What's the behaviour of other unix systems when seeking
beyond the end of block devices?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-12 16:42 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
2002-08-12 16:46 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2002-08-12 17:14 ` Phil Auld
2002-08-13 8:13 ` Helge Hafting
[not found] <266483518@toto.iv>
2002-08-12 22:25 ` Peter Chubb
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