Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19 revert block_llseek behavior to standard

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
12 Aug 2002 18:14:08 +0100


On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 17:36, Phil Auld wrote:
> > Political I don't see any. Technical - have you verified each of our
> > block drivers behaves correctly when given an offset over its side, and
> > that it correctly fails on a 32bit block wrap.
> >
>
> No, but how did it work prior to 2.4.11?

Did it work correctly - the answer I believe is - no it didnt.

Alan

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