meaning of smb seek

[Amin Azez]

* Christopher R. Hertel wrote, On 28/11/07 17:06:
> Amin,
>
> When I was doing research for my CIFS book I was told by several sources
> that the SEEK operation had useful effect.  If you find out otherwise, I'd
> like to know.
>   
Thanks for this.
Do you know if any other actions depend on the seek'd value (maybe
readbraw?)
or if any actions change the seek'd value
or maybe it's just used to truncate files in a hacky way?

I'm not so much interested in it's use but to make sure read-aheads dont
break something.

Sam
> Chris -)-----
>
> Amin Azez wrote:
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>> What is smb seek operation really for, as read/write operations take an
>> offset?
>>
>> It concerns me because I need to know if any special treatment is
>> replied when I read-ahead and (perhaps) have conflicts with seek.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Sam
>>
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