> That was implicit in my question: Are there any seekable devices where > bytes read != offset delta, and if yes, is that correct behaviour, a > bug, or a silly interface that should go away? It's neither a bug nor silly, although some of our users of it are a bit strange. Consider a block based device. It makes complete sense then that a short read (eg user space passing a small buffer) causes the seek position to move on one block. Ditto a block based system with EOF markers might do that (eg some tape systems). In the weirdness (but API) category we have things like the MSR driver which returns an entire MSR for each byte offset. Alan -- 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
