From: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Eric Blake <eblake-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org,
Josef Bacik <josef-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>,
linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org,
linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: Man page doc for SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:27:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E7789A1.4080501@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E77827C.3030202-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
On 09/19/2011 10:57 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/18/2011 01:07 AM, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
>> +
>> +.BR SEEK_DATA
>> +and
>> +.BR SEEK_HOLE
>> +are nonstandard extensions also present in Solaris.
>
> Looks good to me, but you may also want to link to the proposed wording for mandating SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA in the eventual POSIX Issue 8 (POSIX 2008 is Issue 7):
> http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=415
>
> Also, it seems a shame that the kernel can fail with EINVAL instead of properly emulating SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA even on file systems with no underlying support for reporting holes.
>
Why do you say that? If I am reading generic_file_llseek_unlocked()
correctly, the default behavior is treat offset < i_size as data.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-19 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-18 7:07 Man page doc for SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE Michael Kerrisk
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2011-09-19 17:57 ` Eric Blake
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2011-09-19 18:27 ` Sunil Mushran [this message]
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2011-09-19 18:44 ` Eric Blake
2011-09-19 18:57 ` Sunil Mushran
2011-09-20 5:47 ` Michael Kerrisk
2011-09-20 5:24 ` Michael Kerrisk
2011-09-19 18:04 ` Sunil Mushran
[not found] ` <4E778434.6040905-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2011-09-20 5:32 ` Michael Kerrisk
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2011-09-20 15:59 ` Sunil Mushran
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