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From: Phil Auld <pauld@egenera.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: why is lseek broken (>= 2.4.11) ?
Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 08:49:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020809084915.P3542@vienna.EGENERA.COM> (raw)

Hi folks,

There was a brief thread a couple of months ago about the change in 
lseek for block devices. The thread is here:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=102406030100003&r=1&w=2

The change, which looks to have come in with 2.4.11, returns
EINVAL from an lseek on a block device attempting to set pos past 
the size of the device. 
 
This causes current versions glibc to exhibit non-SUS3 lseek behavior.

Are there plans to revert this? It seems that this is something that 
should be addressed in glibc first and then have the kernel change. 

There is no resolution in the thread above, nor is there any 
justification for the change. It just peters out.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Phil


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Philip R. Auld, Ph.D.                  Technical Staff 
Egenera Corp.                        pauld@egenera.com
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             reply	other threads:[~2002-08-09 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-09 12:49 Phil Auld [this message]
2002-08-09 20:48 ` why is lseek broken (>= 2.4.11) ? Andrew Morton
2002-08-09 21:13   ` Andries Brouwer
2002-08-09 21:42     ` Phil Auld

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