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

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Message-ID: <20090317170023.GA2479@x200.localdomain>
Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:00:23 +0300
From:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, r0bertz@...too.org,
	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [GIT] /proc/*/task getdents fixlet

On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 09:15:46AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> 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?

Yes,

	+	switch ((unsigned long)filp->f_pos) {
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