On 2011.04.22 at 00:50 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > [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. It's a bug. Let me quote what Jeff Bonwick wrote on his blog: »I'm not sure where you got the impression that either SEEK_HOLE or SEEK_DATA doesn't set the file pointer. They do. (If they didn't, that would be weird, and we'd call it out explicitly.)« http://blogs.sun.com/bonwick/entry/seek_hole_and_seek_data -- Markus -- 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
