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Date:      Sun, 13 Nov 2011 11:36:19 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Kostik Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        tim@kientzle.com, perryh@pluto.rain.com, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] fadvise(2) system call
Message-ID:  <26038.1321184179@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Nov 2011 13:13:38 %2B0200." <20111113111338.GX50300@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua>

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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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