Re: [RFC] : Is /proc/kcore still usefull and/or maintained ?

Maxim
2007-03-22T00:05:00Z

On Thursday 22 March 2007 01:53:10 Eric Dumazet wrote:
> I stand corrected : This is a new bug
>
> The /proc/kcore problem appears with linux-2.6.21-rc4-mm1
>
> fd = open("/proc/kcore", 0);
> llseek(fd, ...) returns an -EINVAL error
>
>
> Quick code inspection (before going to sleep...) shows that
>
> proc_reg_llseek() (file fs/proc/inode.c)
>
> is doing something like :
>
> rv = -EINVAL;
> llseek = pde->proc_fops->llseek;
> spin_unlock(&pde->pde_unload_lock);
> if (llseek)
> rv = llseek(file, offset, whence);
>
> As kcore dont have a .llseek handler, proc_reg_llseek() returns -EINVAL;
>
> Previous kernel was probably calling a default llseek() handler.
>
> if (!llseek)
> llseek = default_llseek;
>
> Hum ???
>

Hi,
Yes, you are right, you have different problem that I had

But why do you need llseek ?

Why not to mmap it ?
It is natural thing to do with files that represent memory.

Regards,
Maxim Levitsky