Re: lseek on /proc/kmsg

[H. Peter Anvin]

Followup to:  <Pine.LNX.4.61.0503230811020.21578@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author:    Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> Well, what does lseek(fd, >0, SEEK_END) do on normal files?
> 

Sets the file pointer beyond the end of the file (a write() there will
extend the file.)

	-hpa
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