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Re: Whacky ia64: linux_proc_xfer_partial and lseek vs pread64
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> Fascinating. That definitely seems like a kernel bug to me; why not?
Looking closer, it indeed looks like a bug. With 2.6.5 this still did
work. The problem is that fs/read_write.c:rw_verify_area rejects negative
offsets as well, even though fs/proc/base.c:mem_read handles them fine.
Andreas.
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