Re: [PATCH] read() from driverfs files can read more bytes

[Petr Vandrovec]

On  7 Feb 02 at 10:27, Patrick Mochel wrote:

> Concerning reading/writing from offsets, it's up to the drivers for them 
> to either support it or not. In the files I've done so far, I return 0 if 
> show() is called with an offset. Which will give different results if you 
> read byte-by-byte or an entire chunk. 
> 
> It makes the callbacks simpler, but it is not technically correct. 

What about extremelly nice stuff Al Viro made for us in
fs/seq_file.c ? It made putting stuff into procfs really easy...
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