On 2012-04-23, at 5:23 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote: > I'm curious about the above as well as: > > case SEEK_END: > if (unlikely(offset > 0)) > goto out_err; /* not supported for directories */ > > The previous .llseek handler, and the generic handler for other filesystems, allow seeking past the end of the dir AFAICT. (not sure why you'd want to, but I don't see that you'd get an error back). > > Is there a reason to uniquely exclude it in ext4? Does that line up with POSIX? I don't know what the origin of this was... I don't think there is a real reason for it except that it doesn't make any sense to do so. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Whamcloud, Inc. Principal Lustre Engineer http://www.whamcloud.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
