From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757515AbaJ2WIl (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:08:41 -0400 Received: from smtprelay0222.hostedemail.com ([216.40.44.222]:34206 "EHLO smtprelay.hostedemail.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757286AbaJ2WIj (ORCPT ); Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:08:39 -0400 X-Session-Marker: 6A6F6540706572636865732E636F6D X-Spam-Summary: 2,0,0,,d41d8cd98f00b204,joe@perches.com,:::::::::,RULES_HIT:41:355:379:541:599:982:988:989:1260:1277:1311:1313:1314:1345:1359:1373:1437:1515:1516:1518:1534:1537:1566:1593:1594:1711:1714:1730:1747:1777:1792:2393:2559:2562:2693:2828:3138:3139:3140:3141:3142:3622:3865:3866:3867:3868:3871:3874:4321:4384:5007:6261:10004:10400:10848:11026:11658:11914:12114:12296:12517:12519:12740:13069:13255:13311:13357:21080,0,RBL:none,CacheIP:none,Bayesian:0.5,0.5,0.5,Netcheck:none,DomainCache:0,MSF:not bulk,SPF:fn,MSBL:0,DNSBL:none,Custom_rules:0:0:0 X-HE-Tag: laugh23_4b517d9c99622 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1301 Message-ID: <1414620516.2542.3.camel@perches.com> Subject: Re: [RFA][PATCH 1/8] seq_file: Rename seq_overflow() to seq_has_overflowed() and make public From: Joe Perches To: Steven Rostedt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton , Al Viro Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 15:08:36 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20141029220107.333126455@goodmis.org> References: <20141029215602.535533597@goodmis.org> <20141029220107.333126455@goodmis.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.12.7-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2014-10-29 at 17:56 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > +A true return from seq_has_overflowed means that the seq_file buffer is full > +and further output will be discarded. Perhaps the description is a bit unclear here. Doesn't a return of true to seq_has_overflowed mean that more characters have already been written than the buffer can accept?