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From: Rob Pike <rob@mightycheese.com>
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Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 08:13:06 -0800
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> As for telling whether a file is seekable, I'm finding myself leaning
> toward
> what I didn't like before, i.e., info that comes out of dirfstat.
> However I'ld
> prefer the flag say that files are streaming rather than seekable so
> that I
> don't have to change as much (in fact only what I have to change
> anyways).

i still believe it's not worth the trouble to fix, that you're making a
mountain
out of a molehill.  if you decide to add the bit, it's a
locally-defined bit so make
zero the right answer for most files and then the local drivers can set
it. it'll
be a real headache tracking down everything and making sure it's
forwarded
everywhere and so on and so on.

i think it's a mistake.  you'll be futzing with it for years.

-rob