On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 11:00:57PM +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
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> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 07:25:02PM +0200, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > open("/proc/1/stat", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 4
> > _llseek(4, 0, 0xbfb94898, SEEK_END)     = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
> 
> > So it appears that lseek is no longer allowed for /proc/1/stat
> > Bug or feature?
> > start-stop-daemon works fine in 2.6.23
> 
> That's what happens when switching ->llseek method from NULL
> (effectively, default_llseek), to seq_lseek (which rejects SEEK_END).
> 
> commit be614086a4aff163d5aa0dc160638d1193b59cde
> commit ee992744ea53db0a90c986fd0a70fbbf91e7f8bd
> 
> Al, do you remember why SEEK_END was omitted back then?

Because there's no sane way to implement it?  Note that original cheerfully
did nothing, since it had zero ->i_size for that file.  Which makes program
in question very odd - what behaviour does it rely upon?
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