Re: [PATCH] read() from driverfs files can read more bytes

From: Petr Vandrovec (VANDROVE@vc.cvut.cz)
Date: Thu Feb 07 2002 - 15:11:10 EST


On 7 Feb 02 at 10:27, Patrick Mochel wrote:

> Concerning reading/writing from offsets, it's up to the drivers for them
> to either support it or not. In the files I've done so far, I return 0 if
> show() is called with an offset. Which will give different results if you
> read byte-by-byte or an entire chunk.
>
> It makes the callbacks simpler, but it is not technically correct.

What about extremelly nice stuff Al Viro made for us in
fs/seq_file.c ? It made putting stuff into procfs really easy...
                                            Petr Vandrovec
                                            vandrove@vc.cvut.cz
                                            
 
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