linux-kernel - Re: [GIT] /proc/*/task getdents fixlet

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0903170913250.3082@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2009 09:15:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, r0bertz@...too.org,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [GIT] /proc/*/task getdents fixlet



On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 
> Linus, please from
> 
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/adobriyan/proc.git proc-linus
> 
> to get the following patch:
> 
> Zhang Le (1):
>       proc: update ->f_pos correctly in proc_task_readdir()

Grr. I already took the previous patch.

I assume the only difference is to avoid using a "switch()" on a 64-bit 
variable, and just cast it to "unsigned long". No?

		Linus
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