Re: [RFC, PATCH 3/4] elf_core_dump(): make offset calculation and writing processes explicit
From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Dec 15 2009 - 09:07:38 EST
Daisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> However, the clause 1. is not always possible, since one
> cannot assume that dump_seek() function always supports
> the seek in the minus direction. Consider no_llseek.
Not even forward seek is always supported, consider core dumping
to a pipe.
-Andi
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