Hi, Il 28/06/2011 17:33, Josef Bacik ha scritto:
This just gets us ready to support the SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA flags. Turns out using fiemap in things like cp cause more problems than it solves, so lets try and give userspace an interface that doesn't suck. We need to match solaris here, and the definitions are *o* If /whence/ is SEEK_HOLE, the offset of the start of the next hole greater than or equal to the supplied offset is returned. The definition of a hole is provided near the end of the DESCRIPTION. *o* If /whence/ is SEEK_DATA, the file pointer is set to the start of the next non-hole file region greater than or equal to the supplied offset.
I'm implementing the SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE management for pramfs and I've got some doubts about the right behavior:
1) when we use SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE, the offset used in lseek means always the offset from the start of the file, right?
2) in case of a file with hole at the beginning and data at the end, if I do lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_HOLE) I should receive the end of the file because the idea is to search the *next* hole and we have always a virtual hole at the end of the file, right?
3) about the last sentence of point 2), is it always true even if we have a case of block allocation beyond the end of file (fallocate with keep size option)?
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