<div dir="ltr"><div>The qs is whether this change is required for a real problem or not. If so, what is that logic<br></div><div>that gets tripped up by this behaviour.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:08 PM, Andrew Morton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:akpm@linux-foundation.org" target="_blank">akpm@linux-foundation.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div class="im">On Wed, 26 Jun 2013 20:34:19 -0700 Sunil Mushran <<a href="mailto:sunil.mushran@gmail.com">sunil.mushran@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> AFAIR, this behavior has been there since day 1 and changing it will impact<br>
> performance negatively. I would recommend against making this change for<br>
> one app.<br>
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</div>Well, it's a bug fix isn't it? SEEK_END on a 15k file is presently returning<br>
10k.<br>
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Obviously tradeoffs are involved - is there any way in which this<br>
behaviour can be fixed without serious performance damage?<br>
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