Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19 revert block_llseek behavior to standard

From: Phil Auld (pauld@egenera.com)
Date: Mon Aug 12 2002 - 13:06:33 EST

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Rumor has it that on Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 06:14:08PM +0100 Alan Cox said:
> On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 17:36, Phil Auld wrote:
> > > Political I don't see any. Technical - have you verified each of our
> > > block drivers behaves correctly when given an offset over its side, and
> > > that it correctly fails on a 32bit block wrap.
> > >
> >
> > No, but how did it work prior to 2.4.11?
>
> Did it work correctly - the answer I believe is - no it didnt.
>
>

It may not have worked in all cases but it did observe standard
specified behavior.

Phil

> Alan

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