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Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:16:52 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()
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On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:03:55 -0800 Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> Just curious .. What does posix_fallocate() return ?

bookmark this:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/nfindex.html

    Upon successful completion, posix_fallocate() shall return zero;
    otherwise, an error number shall be returned to indicate the error.