Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:03:55 -0800 | From | Badari Pulavarty <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate() |
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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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