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Re: fop->llseek() ?

On Mon, 3 Dec 2001, Daniel Marian wrote:

> Hello,
>  The llseek function declared in file_operations structure is :
>
> loff_t (*llseek) (struct file *, loff_t, int)
>
> Here what is the third(3rd) parameter used for, is it
> same as the "whence" parameter of fseek() function in libc ?
> and what are the relevant values it can take ?
> Is there something similar to(SEEK_SET, SEEK_CUR, SEEK_END)
> which can be assigned to the 3rd parameter of the llseek
> function.

Yes it is the same.

Cheers,
Zwane Mwaikambo


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