Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC, PATCH 3/4] elf_core_dump(): make offset calculation and writing processes explicit | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:07:31 +0100 |
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Daisuke HATAYAMA <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com> writes: > > However, the clause 1. is not always possible, since one > cannot assume that dump_seek() function always supports > the seek in the minus direction. Consider no_llseek.
Not even forward seek is always supported, consider core dumping to a pipe.
-Andi
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