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Followup to: <1131686314.2833.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> By author: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 15:23 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > > > We discussed this in madvise(REMOVE) thread - to add support > > for sys_punchhole(fd, offset, len) to complete the functionality > > (in the future). > > in the past always this was said to be "really hard" in linux locking > wise, esp. the locking with respect to truncate... > > did you find a solution to this problem ? For the sake of completeness, it should probably be stated that the utility of such a function is pretty clear. -hpa - 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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