Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 9 May 2007 20:50:44 +1000 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] fallocate() implementation in i86, x86_64 and powerpc |
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Suparna Bhattacharya writes:
> > This looks like it will have the same problem on s390 as > > sys_sync_file_range. Maybe the prototype should be: > > > > asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(loff_t offset, loff_t len, int fd, int mode) > > Yes, but the trouble is that there was a contrary viewpoint preferring that fd > first be maintained as a convention like other syscalls (see the following > posts)
Of course the interface used by an application program would have the fd first. Glibc can do the translation.
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