Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Delay writing 0's after llseek until write

2007-05-22 Thread Zach Brown
> FWIW, I believe Andrew's point was that critical information for Joe > Enduser (and Joe Patch-Ho) was lacking in the original changelog. and don't forget Joe eCryptfs-Maintainer-2-Years-In-The-Future. - z - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Delay writing 0's after llseek until write

2007-05-22 Thread Nish Aravamudan
On 5/22/07, Michael Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:07:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 18:00:21 -0500 Michael Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Delay writing 0's out in eCryptfs after a seek past the end of the > > file until data is act

Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Delay writing 0's after llseek until write

2007-05-22 Thread Michael Halcrow
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:07:08PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 18:00:21 -0500 Michael Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Delay writing 0's out in eCryptfs after a seek past the end of the > > file until data is actually written. > > a) why? http://www.opengroup.org/on

Re: [PATCH] eCryptfs: Delay writing 0's after llseek until write

2007-05-21 Thread Andrew Morton
On Mon, 21 May 2007 18:00:21 -0500 Michael Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Delay writing 0's out in eCryptfs after a seek past the end of the > file until data is actually written. a) why? b) what is the impact upon a user of them not having this patch? - To unsubscribe from this list: send

[PATCH] eCryptfs: Delay writing 0's after llseek until write

2007-05-21 Thread Michael Halcrow
Delay writing 0's out in eCryptfs after a seek past the end of the file until data is actually written. Signed-off-by: Michael Halcrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/file.c b/fs/ecryptfs/file.c index 9881b5c..59288d8 100644 --- a/fs/ecryptfs/file.c +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/file.c @@ -3