Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263094AbVCJULn (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:11:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263106AbVCJUGP (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:06:15 -0500 Received: from willy.net1.nerim.net ([62.212.114.60]:51719 "EHLO willy.net1.nerim.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263081AbVCJUB1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:01:27 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 21:01:13 +0100 From: Willy Tarreau To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Cc: Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] make st seekable again Message-ID: <20050310200113.GE30052@alpha.home.local> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 711 Lines: 17 On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 01:43:57AM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: > Can the lseek be restricted to seek from 0 to 0 (or even * to 0 aka rewind)? > This would re-enable tar and probably other applications depending on this > API while not giving them false positives. This would be good only if we also agree to spit out warning messages every time the trick is used, so that people know they are relying on a buggy application. Just like tcpdump and AF_PACKET. willy - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/