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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-05-31 05:46:45 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-05-31 05:46:45 -0700
commit64960848abd18d0bcde3f53ffa7ed0b631e6b25d (patch)
tree8424a1c550a98ce09f127425fde9b7b5f2f5027a /fs/read_write.c
parent2903037400a26e7c0cc93ab75a7d62abfacdf485 (diff)
parent67a3e12b05e055c0415c556a315a3d3eb637e29e (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/read_write.c')
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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 113386d6fd2d..9c0485236e68 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -97,6 +97,23 @@ loff_t generic_file_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(generic_file_llseek);
+/**
+ * noop_llseek - No Operation Performed llseek implementation
+ * @file: file structure to seek on
+ * @offset: file offset to seek to
+ * @origin: type of seek
+ *
+ * This is an implementation of ->llseek useable for the rare special case when
+ * userspace expects the seek to succeed but the (device) file is actually not
+ * able to perform the seek. In this case you use noop_llseek() instead of
+ * falling back to the default implementation of ->llseek.
+ */
+loff_t noop_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
+{
+ return file->f_pos;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(noop_llseek);
+
loff_t no_llseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int origin)
{
return -ESPIPE;