Re: lseek patch for 2.2.18pre23

From: kernel@kvack.org
Date: Fri Nov 24 2000 - 10:00:51 EST


On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> And in LFS (that means also 2.4.x) the >> 32 doesn't make any sense in lseek
> and should be removed:

Actually, the >> 32 part was there to avoid doing the long long comparison
on x86. Granted, that probably doesn't matter.

                -ben

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