From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eric Blake Subject: Re: Man page doc for SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:57:16 -0600 Message-ID: <4E77827C.3030202@redhat.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Josef Bacik , linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On 09/18/2011 01:07 AM, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > + > +.BR SEEK_DATA > +and > +.BR SEEK_HOLE > +are nonstandard extensions also present in Solaris. Looks good to me, but you may also want to link to the proposed wording for mandating SEEK_HOLE/SEEK_DATA in the eventual POSIX Issue 8 (POSIX 2008 is Issue 7): http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=415 Also, it seems a shame that the kernel can fail with EINVAL instead of properly emulating SEEK_HOLE and SEEK_DATA even on file systems with no underlying support for reporting holes. -- Eric Blake eblake-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html