Re: [PATCH] fs: kill default_llseek

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 09:23:35AM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote:
> So every sb has s_maxbytes set to something, is this not acceptable
> for character devices?  I guess some can let you seek well past this
> point so we should just do some if (S_ISCHR()) return or whatever?

Probably for all special files just to be sure, although
pipes/sockets/fifos aren't searchable, and block devices tend to
get redirected to their own superblock.

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