On 5/22/07, Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:07:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 18:00:21 -0500 Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Delay writing 0's out in eCryptfs after a seek past the end of the > > file until data is actually written. > > a) why? http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/lseek.html ``The lseek() function shall not, by itself, extend the size of a file.'' > b) what is the impact upon a user of them not having this patch? Applications that lseek() past the end of the file without writing will experience unexpected behavior.
FWIW, I believe Andrew's point was that critical information for Joe Enduser (and Joe Patch-Ho) was lacking in the original changelog. Thanks, Nish - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
