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Joakim Tjernlund wrote:

> Good, bb should probably do the same. I just hope Al will allow a grace period and restore
> the old behavior so bb can catch up.

I don't see any reason why lseek() should not always work.  Besides, a "grace
period" would mean that on some future kernel, older busybox will not work.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale