From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Getting direct support for fallocate(2) into glibc
Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 12:03:55 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <493EB30B.8090300@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081209173128.GA19214@mit.edu>
Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 09, 2008 at 10:58:19AM -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> ... oh, ok, but plain old fallocate() isn't yet hooked up, odd.
>>
>> # gcc -o test-fallocate test-fallocate.c
>> /tmp/ccQTk6an.o: In function `main':
>> test-fallocate.c:(.text+0x3e): undefined reference to `fallocate'
>>
>> Especially odd because we have a man page shipping, but no actual
>> implemented interface :) OK, I'll go bug people.
>
> Yep, that was what I was referring to. We have the fallocate(2) man
> page because Michael Kerrisk has documented the userspace/kernel
> interface. But that doesn't necessarily mean that glibc has wired up
> the interface. (Sigh, we had been able to push this issue *before*
> glibc 2.9 shipped last month, but we were all too busy....)
Ok. yeah, I honestly didn't realize that the bare interface wasn't
there. :(
-Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-09 18:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-09 6:50 Getting direct support for fallocate(2) into glibc Theodore Ts'o
2008-12-09 16:58 ` Eric Sandeen
2008-12-09 17:31 ` Theodore Tso
2008-12-09 18:03 ` Eric Sandeen [this message]
2008-12-11 19:00 ` Andreas Dilger
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