lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2007]   [Mar]   [2]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
    /
    Date
    From
    SubjectRe: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

    Amit K. Arora wrote:

    >This is to give a heads up on few patches that we will be soon coming up
    >with. These patches implement a new system call sys_fallocate() and a
    >new inode operation "fallocate", for persistent preallocation. The new
    >system call, as Andrew suggested, will look like:
    >
    > asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len);
    >
    I am wondering about return values from this syscall ? Is it supposed to
    return the
    number of bytes allocated ? What about partial allocations ? What about
    if the
    blocks already exists ? What would be return values in those cases ?

    Just curious .. What does posix_fallocate() return ?

    Thanks,
    Badari

    >



    -
    To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
    the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
    More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
    Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

    \
     
     \ /
      Last update: 2007-03-02 07:07    [W:4.083 / U:0.048 seconds]
    ©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site