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Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 22:40:00 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk
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Subject: Re: _write_fill_seek_gap: Bug in checking for non-files [PATCH]
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> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 16:57:59 +0000
> From: "Richard Dawe" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
> 
> There's a bug in _write_fill_seek_gap that prevents the zero-fill
> from working for files with file descriptors that bits 0-2 set.
> The code is trying to avoid zero-fill for character devices,
> where it's not applicable. But it does not check that the device info
> has the character device bit set (_DEV_CDEV == 0x80).
> 
> Below is a patch that fixes this problem. OK to commit?

Looks fine to me.  Thanks.

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