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Date:      Mon, 21 Nov 2011 11:01:20 +0530
From:      Ramanjaneyulu Talla <Ramanjaneyulu.Talla@citrix.com>
To:        "perryh@pluto.rain.com" <perryh@pluto.rain.com>, "arundel@freebsd.org" <arundel@freebsd.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, "nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de" <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>
Subject:   Re: easy way to determine if a stream or fd is seekable
Message-ID:  <CAEFDFFE.1E621%ramanjaneyulu.talla@citrix.com>
In-Reply-To: <4eca40f5.fvA0Xb1G9w%2BwuGj6%perryh@pluto.rain.com>

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On 21/11/11 5:45 PM, "perryh@pluto.rain.com" <perryh@pluto.rain.com> wrote:

>Alexander Best <arundel@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> here's a revised patch.
>> ...
>> +.Sh CAVEATS
>> +If the
>> +.Fn lseek
>> +system call is operating on a device, which is incapable of seeking,
>> +it will request the seek operation and complete successfully.
>
>I think it would be better without the first comma (after "device").
>
>IMO the whole section should be added to BUGS rather than creating
>a new CAVEATS section.  Returning "success" when the requested
>operation actually _failed_ is a serious POLA violation.
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