no_seek_end_llseek_size(9)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so welcome to the no_seek_end_llseek_size(9) page from the Kernel API Manual — yes bestie, we are in kernel API territory and this one is short but iconic 💅

no_seek_end_llseek_size — llseek implementation for fixed-sized devices. that's the whole name-and-description combo, and it ate 🫶

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

loff_t no_seek_end_llseek_size (struct file *file , loff_t offset , int
       whence , loff_t size );

literally the signature, exactly as it is — no cap ✨

🎀 ARGUMENTS 🎀

• file — the file structure to seek on, like the main character of this operation 💖
• offset — the file offset to seek to, aka the exact spot you're aiming for 🎯
• whence — type of seek, the seek flavor if you will 🦋
• size — maximal offset allowed, the ceiling, the limit, periodt 🔥

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

kernel file ./fs/read_write.c, plus the whole seek crew — every one of these, no skipping 🙈

• 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(9)
• noop_llseek(9)

okay that's the page bestie — source/version ./fs, dated October 2026, for no_seek_end_llseek_size(9), and yes she understood the assignment 💖✨