Re: [PATCH] 2.4.19 revert block_llseek behavior to standard

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 17:06, Phil Auld wrote:
> Hi Al,
> 	I think this falls under the VFS umbrella, but I may be wrong. 
> 
> Below is a fix to make block_llseek behave as specified in the Single Unix Spec. v3.
> (http://www.unix-systems.org/single_unix_specification/). It's extremely trivial but
> may have political baggage.

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.

I suspect we should still fail it with the allowed error code to be safe
in 2.4