From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] sys_punchhole()
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:11:30 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dl6lei$aq5$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1131686314.2833.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org
Followup to: <1131686314.2833.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
By author: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 15:23 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> >
> > We discussed this in madvise(REMOVE) thread - to add support
> > for sys_punchhole(fd, offset, len) to complete the functionality
> > (in the future).
>
> in the past always this was said to be "really hard" in linux locking
> wise, esp. the locking with respect to truncate...
>
> did you find a solution to this problem ?
For the sake of completeness, it should probably be stated that the
utility of such a function is pretty clear.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-13 6:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-10 23:23 [RFC] sys_punchhole() Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-10 23:23 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-10 23:32 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10 23:32 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-10 23:41 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-10 23:41 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-10 23:55 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-11-10 23:55 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-11-11 8:25 ` Ingo Oeser
2005-11-11 19:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-11 19:07 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-11-16 12:08 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-16 12:08 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-16 12:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-11-16 12:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-11-13 15:09 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-13 15:09 ` Pavel Machek
2005-11-16 22:01 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-16 22:01 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-16 23:37 ` Ric Wheeler
2005-11-16 23:37 ` Ric Wheeler
2005-11-21 6:46 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-21 6:46 ` Rob Landley
2005-11-18 16:42 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2005-11-18 16:42 ` Ragnar Kjørstad
2005-11-18 16:54 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-18 16:54 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-11 5:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-11 5:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-13 6:11 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2005-11-16 16:05 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-16 16:05 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-11-16 16:38 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2005-11-16 16:38 ` Anton Altaparmakov
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