to take which of the following ways: 1. Seek backward to retry writing operation for ELF header after writing process for a whole part 2. Make offset calculation process and writing process totally sequential The clause 1. is not always possible: one cannot assume that file system supports seek function. Consider the no_llseek case. Therefore, this patch adopts the clause 2. Signed-off-by: Daisuke HATAYAMA Cc: "Luck, Tony" Cc: Jeff Dike Cc: David Howells Cc: Greg Ungerer Cc: Roland McGrath Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Alexander Viro Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Alan Cox Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds }¥M1›Sx