Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:05:16 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 4/7][TAKE5] support new modes in fallocate |
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On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 08:55:43AM +1000, David Chinner wrote: > Given the current behaviour for posix_fallocate() in glibc, I think > that retaining the same error semantic and punting the cleanup to > userspace (where the app will fail with ENOSPC anyway) is the only > sane thing we can do here. Trying to undo this in the kernel leads > to lots of extra rarely used code in error handling paths...
Agreed, looks like we should stay with the user has to clean up behaviour. - 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/
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