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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: Problem with cat
From:       Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards () gmail ! com>
Date:       2017-03-15 13:44:28
Message-ID: oabgfs$tt$1 () blaine ! gmane ! org
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On 2017-03-15, Sam Liddicott <sam@liddicott.com> wrote:
> On 14 March 2017 at 14:44, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-03-14, Lauri Kasanen <cand@gmx.com> wrote:
>> > On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 19:24:17 +0000 (UTC)
>> > Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> That paragraph is wrong (or at least misleading). I've checked the
>> >> source code, and 2.6.33 does not update the output file postition (at
>> >> least not the version I downloaded from kernels.org nor the version I
>> >> got from Atmel). Perhaps the author of that man page had a 2.6.33 with
>> >> some 3.0 stuff backported.
>> >
>> > Please report the bug to them. I've found the man-pages project quite
>> > responsive.
>>
>> Done... thanks for reminding me.  Unfortunately, I can't build/test
>> kernels between 2.6.33.7 (sendfile->file broken), and 3.2 (works) to
>> find the exact point where the change that correctly sets the output
>> file position happened.
>
> And as has been said, it may not help if you did; who can know which
> patches have been ported anyway.

I can, and I do.

None of the patches applied to 2.6.33.7 touch the filesystem code.

None of the other kernels I tested with had any patches applied.

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