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From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e4defrag: fix build when posix_fadvise is missing
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 12:22:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140101172205.GC17519@thunk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33245e3808058c72b66931ac14aea8d5dc6d1ba5.1388572103.git.baruch@tkos.co.il>

On Wed, Jan 01, 2014 at 12:28:23PM +0200, Baruch Siach wrote:
> uClibc declares posix_fadvise() even when the architecture does not provide
> one. The static posix_fadvise() signature is not compatible with POSIX. Rename
> the internal implementation to fix this.

If the architecture doesn't provide posix_fadvise(), does that imply
that __NR_fadvise64_64 also doesn't exist?

Or do you mean that for some reason, uClibc is not providing
posix_fadvise on all architectures, even though the kernel supports it?

That seems wierd.

	      	     		    	 	- Ted

  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-01 17:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-01 10:28 [PATCH] e4defrag: fix build when posix_fadvise is missing Baruch Siach
2014-01-01 17:22 ` Theodore Ts'o [this message]
2014-01-01 17:31   ` Baruch Siach
2014-01-01 17:37     ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-01-01 19:08       ` Baruch Siach
2014-01-01 20:46         ` Theodore Ts'o
2014-01-02  6:49           ` Baruch Siach

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