linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH update] firewire: nosy: char device is not seekable

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Message-ID: <4CC2CB4B.8040600@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Sat, 23 Oct 2010 13:47:23 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH update] firewire: nosy: char device is not seekable

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> Most likely you also want the nonseekeable_open, which would prevent
> both llseek and pread/pwrite, whereas leaving out llseek currently
> only prevents llseek.

Right, thanks for the reminder.
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