Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
Linus Torvalds
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fdget_pos() is used by file operations that will read and update f_pos: things like "read()", "write()" and "lseek()" (but not, for example, "pread()/pwrite" that get their file positions elsewhere). However, it had two separate escape clauses for this, because not everybody wants or needs serialization of the file position. The first and most obvious case is the "file descriptor doesn't have a position at all", ie a stream-like file. Except we didn't actually use FMODE_STREAM, but instead used FMODE_ATOMIC_POS. The reason for that was that FMODE_STREAM didn't exist back in the days, but also that we didn't want to mark all the special cases, so we only marked the ones that _required_ position atomicity according to POSIX - regular files and directories. The case one was intentionally lazy, but now that we _do_ have FMODE_STREAM we could and should just use it. With the change to use FMODE_STREAM, there are no remaining uses for FMODE_ATOMIC_POS, ...
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