Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate() | From | Nathan Scott <> | Date | Fri, 02 Mar 2007 09:40:54 +1100 |
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On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 14:25 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 00:04:45 +0530 > "Amit K. Arora" <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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'd agree with Eric on the "command" flag extension.
Seems like a separate syscall would be better, "command" sounds a bit ioctl like, especially if that command is passed into the filesystems..
cheers.
-- Nathan
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