On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 08:19:17PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
While we are at it, could the person who'd come up with ui_lseek() be located
and made to stand up and explain the rationale behind the SEEK_END semantics
therein? To quote the manpage (and paraphrase just about any introductory
textbook):
SEEK_END
The file offset is set to the size of the file plus offset bytes.
I'm really curious - which part of "plus" might have lead to
case SEEK_END:
offset = ((dd->kregend - dd->kregbase) + DC8051_DATA_MEM_SIZE) -
offset;
and, if its author has decided that of course it _must_ have meant "minus",
why had he or she failed to post a correction to the manpage? Or, on the
Original author of that code confirmed it is just a coding mistake and we
will fix it.
-Denny
