Re: [PATCH 1/4] fs: add SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags

[Sunil Mushran]

On 08/22/2011 10:56 AM, Marco Stornelli wrote:
> Il 22/08/2011 17:57, Sunil Mushran ha scritto:
> > The following test was used to test the early implementations.
> > http://oss.oracle.com/~smushran/seek_data/
>
> Thank you very much!! I found another point. Your test fails with my 
> implementation because here 
> (http://www.austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=415) says: "If whence is 
> SEEK_DATA, the file offset shall be set to the smallest location of a 
> byte not within a hole and not less than offset. It shall be an error 
> if no such byte exists." So in this case I return ENXIO but the test 
> expects another value. I have to say that there is a bit of confusion 
> about the real behavior of this new feature :)

That's test 5.10, 5.12, 5.14. And it expects -ENXIO.

Which test is failing for you?
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