From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Bryan Henderson <hbryan@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
Paul Taysom <Paul.Taysom@novell.com>,
viro@www.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: negative seek offsets in VFS
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 13:41:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050528124117.GB26151@mail.shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <OF5D92EB2B.6BFD646E-ON8825700E.0064A49C-8825700E.006682A1@us.ibm.com>
Bryan Henderson wrote:
> OK, I remember that now. I probably forgot it because I couldn't think of
> any use for that special range of values more negative than -4095. Can
> you give an example of a system call that returns integers less than
> -4095?
fcntl(fd, F_GETOWN, 0) can.
See fs/fcntl.c.
So can ptrace() on some architectures.
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-28 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <s29588e0.089@sinclair.provo.novell.com>
2005-05-26 17:49 ` negative seek offsets in VFS Bryan Henderson
2005-05-26 19:23 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-26 21:17 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-05-27 10:43 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-27 18:39 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-05-28 12:41 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2005-05-31 18:08 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-05-30 9:36 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-31 18:33 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-05-28 12:37 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-05-30 9:32 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-26 14:29 Paul Taysom
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-25 16:39 Andi Kleen
2005-05-25 16:56 ` Trond Myklebust
2005-05-25 18:48 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-26 0:56 ` Bryan Henderson
2005-05-26 19:20 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-26 15:15 ` Al Viro
2005-05-26 15:29 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-05-26 19:25 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-26 19:39 ` Linus Torvalds
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