Re: [PATCH] adjust /dev/{kmem,mem,port} write handlers

On Fri, 2006-03-03 at 10:31 +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> The /dev/mem and /dev/kmem write handlers weren't fully POSIX compliant in
> that they wouldn't always force the file pointer to be updated when returning
> success status.

should we instead just remove the /dev/mem and/or /dev/kmem write
handlers entirely?


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