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From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: negative seek offsets in VFS
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 13:41:17 +0100
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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