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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:35:22 -0300
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: make arp seq_file show method only produce one record per call
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Em Wed, Oct 16, 2002 at 06:15:50PM -0700, David S. Miller escreveu:
>    From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
>    Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 22:11:08 -0300
> 
>    That would be nice, yes, bastardizing pos for this is, humm, ugly, and
>    it isn't accessible at show time (pun intended 8) ).
> 
> Can you remind me what the original objection was to
> just using seq->private?  Is it used, or planned to
> be used, by something else?

lemme get my logs... here it is:

Quoting Al:

"You're free to use, but keep in mind that it's assumed to be constant over
->start/->stop/->next/->show more accurately, there's no sane way to use it as
part of iterator state it's for "which of iterators with similar code it is?"
e.g. /proc/<pid>/mounts uses the same iterator over different namespaces -
depending on pid.  take a look at the way /proc/ksyms is done"

- Arnaldo
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