On Thu, Sep 26, 2024 at 02:58:56PM +0000, Alice Ryhl wrote: > Add accessors for the file position. Most of the time, you should not > use these methods directly, and you should instead use a guard for the > file position to prove that you hold the fpos lock. However, under > limited circumstances, files are allowed to choose a different locking > strategy for their file position. These accessors can be used to handle > that case. > > For now, these accessors are the only way to access the file position > within the llseek and read_iter callbacks. You really should not do that within ->read_iter(). If your method does that, it has the wrong signature. If nothing else, it should be usable for preadv(2), so what file position are you talking about?
