[Eric: please don't drop the Cc list, thanks!] On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 09:22:55PM -0400, Josef Bacik wrote: > > since all files have a virtual hole at the end, but leaves the position > > unchanged). ??I'd have to write a test program on Solaris to see whether that > > definition is actually true, or if it is a bug in the Solaris man page. > > > > lseek's purpose is to reposition the file position, so I'd imagine > this is just a bug in the man page. I would be surprised if the bug is around for such a long time, but otherwise I concur. > Except you can have blocks allocated past i_size, so returning i_size > isn't necessarily correct. Obviously the idea is to have most of the > filesystems doing the correct thing, but for my first go around I just > was going to do one since I expect quite a bit of repainting for this > bikeshed is yet to be done. But I guess if you have data past i_size > doing this would encourage the various fs people to fix it. Trying to be smart about our semantics is not helpful here. The interface has been out in Solaris for a while, and we'll have to either stick to it or use different names for the interface. And staying compatible is far more useful for userspace programmers. -- 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
