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DateThu, 01 Mar 2007 22:03:55 -0800
FromBadari Pulavarty <>
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

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