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@@ -122,8 +122,7 @@ stop() is the place to free it.
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Finally, the show() function should format the object currently pointed to
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-by the iterator for output. It should return zero, or an error code if
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-something goes wrong. The example module's show() function is:
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+by the iterator for output. The example module's show() function is:
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static int ct_seq_show(struct seq_file *s, void *v)
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{
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@@ -132,6 +131,12 @@ something goes wrong. The example module's show() function is:
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return 0;
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}
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+If all is well, the show() function should return zero. A negative error
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+code in the usual manner indicates that something went wrong; it will be
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+passed back to user space. This function can also return SEQ_SKIP, which
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+causes the current item to be skipped; if the show() function has already
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+generated output before returning SEQ_SKIP, that output will be dropped.
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We will look at seq_printf() in a moment. But first, the definition of the
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seq_file iterator is finished by creating a seq_operations structure with
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the four functions we have just defined:
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