On (20/03/12 21:35), Bruno Meneguele wrote: > > Userspace libraries, e.g. glibc's dprintf(), expect the default return value > for invalid seek situations: -ESPIPE, but when the IO was over /dev/kmsg the > current state of kernel code was returning the generic case of an -EINVAL. > Hence, userspace programs were not behaving as expected or documented. > Hmm. I don't think I see ESPIPE in documentation [0], [1], [2] [0] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/fprintf.html [1] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/dprintf.3p.html [2] http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/fprintf.3p.html -ss
