Nicolas Williams wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 11:26:28PM -0800, Dan Mick wrote:
>> Here are all the offsets from my inetd:
>>
>>       /devices/pseudo/mm at 0:null offset:0
>>       [...]
>>
>> so basically none of them are 'useful'.  It's possible that the information 
>> that none of the devices increment a seek offset is itself useful, though, 
>> which is why I decided to output them rather than try to invent a heuristic 
>> for which dev types mattered and which didn't.
> 
> offset == 0 -> don't print it?

might well be relevant for seekable files.  "why hasn't this process read 
anything from its input yet"?

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