From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use generic_file_llseek for directories
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:47:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080912084707.GB22641@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080814204817.GA19614@lst.de>
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 10:48:17PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> XFS currently doesn't set up a .llseek for directories and thus defaults
> to default_llseek. default_llseek only takes the BKL which means there
> is not exclusion vs xfs_readdir and thus we get a risk of corrupting
> the file position. Additionally default_llseek only allows seeks to
> 32bit offsets by default.
Al put this change into mainline as part of fixing up various
filesystems in the meantime.
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