On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 13:08, Frank.A.Uepping@t-online.de wrote:
> Inside some file operations functions (read/write) I saw this:
>
> size_t read(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t count loff_t *pos)
> {
> if (pos != &file->f_pos)
> return -ESPIPE;
> ...
>
> What is this good for?
Using pread() gives an ESPIPE error.
Bernd
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