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To: Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
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In message <20111113111338.GX50300@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>, Kostik Belousov 
writes:

>Drivers can see the file offset and operate on them properly, but not at
>the lseek(2) time.

Right, that's what I meant:  The offset is not passed in as an
independent entity, only as a param of data movement.

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