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Re: pos != &file->f_pos

On Mon, 2004-01-05 at 13:08, Frank.A.Uepping@t-online.de wrote:
> Inside some file operations functions (read/write) I saw this:
> 
> size_t read(struct file *file, char *buf, size_t count loff_t *pos)
> {
> 	if (pos != &file->f_pos)
> 		return -ESPIPE;
> ...
> 
> What is this good for?

Using pread() gives an ESPIPE error.

	Bernd
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