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"?