no_seek_end_llseek(9)

💖 no_seek_end_llseek(9) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual — this one's a little function with a big boundary issue (affectionate). Meet no_seek_end_llseek, the llseek implementation for fixed-sized devices. yeah. she's the one who says "you can look, but you can't sneak past the end." icon behaviour, honestly.

✨ NAME ✨

no_seek_end_llseek — the llseek implementation for fixed-sized devices 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

loff_t no_seek_end_llseek (struct file *file , loff_t offset , int
whence );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• file — the file structure you're seeking on, bestie. that's the main character right there 💅
• offset — the file offset you wanna seek to. like, where are we going 👀
• whence — the type of seek. yeah, it's giving "which direction, queen?" 🧚

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./fs/read_write.c, plus the whole friend group: vfs_setpos_cookie(9), vfs_setpos(9), must_set_pos(9), generic_file_llseek_size(9), generic_llseek_cookie(9), generic_file_llseek(9), fixed_size_llseek(9), no_seek_end_llseek_size(9), noop_llseek(9) ✨

and that's the whole page, no cap 💖 this little gem lives in ./fs and the version vibes are dated October 2026 — go off, king 🌈🫶