From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Michael Kerrisk Subject: Re: Unable to parse a sentence in sync_file_range.2 Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:48:33 +0200 Message-ID: References: <7b3bdec71002181532o4ed24f53j121c3923ea7fa8df@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Denis Barbier , Christoph Hellwig Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hi Christoph, Ping? Cheers, Michael On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Denis Barbier wr= ote: >> Hi, >> >> When translating sync_file_range.2 I had been confused by this sente= nce: >> >> =A0When writing into preallocated space, many filesystems also >> =A0require calls into the block allocator, which this system >> =A0call does not sync out to disk. >> >> Can someone please rephrase it? =A0In particular, what does 'which' = refer to? >> Thanks. > > Actually, now that I look more closely at it, I realize that I find i= t > hard to parse too. > > Christoph wrote that sentence. perhaps he can help? > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > -- > Michael Kerrisk > Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ > Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ > --=20 Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.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