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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:43:14 -0600
Subject: Re: Purpose of parameter in sysfs binary read
From: "Rick L. Vinyard, Jr." <rvinyard@cs.nmsu.edu>
To: "Alan Stern" <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
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Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Rick L. Vinyard, Jr. wrote:
>
> Neither one.  If the kernel wanted to add an offset to buf, it would
> have done so before calling the function.  The code should be more like
> this:
>
> 	memcpy(buf, bindata + offset, min(size, bsize - offset));
>

Ahhh, offset into the binary data.

Thanks.