From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:01:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050310200113.GE30052@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1D9BmR-00026p-03@be1.7eggert.dyndns.org>
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:43:57AM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> Can the lseek be restricted to seek from 0 to 0 (or even * to 0 aka rewind)?
> This would re-enable tar and probably other applications depending on this
> API while not giving them false positives.
This would be good only if we also agree to spit out warning messages every
time the trick is used, so that people know they are relying on a buggy
application. Just like tcpdump and AF_PACKET.
willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-10 20:11 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <fa.i3f7d9s.30m8rg@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.l4kuq52.e6001g@ifi.uio.no>
2005-03-10 0:43 ` [PATCH] make st seekable again Bodo Eggert
2005-03-10 20:01 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
[not found] <200503081911.j28JBlxi016013@hera.kernel.org>
2005-03-09 20:51 ` Alan Cox
2005-03-09 21:58 ` Kai Makisara
2005-03-09 22:27 ` Alan Cox
2005-03-10 11:49 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-03-10 12:10 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-10 16:43 ` Alan Cox
2005-03-10 16:56 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-03-10 17:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-10 17:58 ` Alan Cox
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