Re: [PATCH 01/15] Introduce noop_llseek()

[Jamie Lokier]

Jan Blunck wrote:
> The noop_llseek() is a llseek() operation that filesystems can use that
> don't want to support seeking (leave the file->f_pos untouched) but still
> want to let the syscall itself to succeed.

This is weird behaviour: if you want to allow llseek() to succeed but
don't really support seeking, why does the device even care about the
value of file->f_pos?

-- Jamie
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