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From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: "Chen, Kenneth W" <kenneth.w.chen@intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: posix_fallocate question again
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 19:36:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F443048.6000902@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030820214643.A5572@infradead.org>

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Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Note that the design for posix_fallocate is stupid.  We really want
> a 64bit len argument even on 32bit machines.

I've submitted already a bug report for that.  *Iff* somebody implements
posix_fallocate in the kernel, use

  int posix_fallocate (int, off64_t, off64_t)

as the interface (or whatever the kernel equivalent is).

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      reply	other threads:[~2003-08-21  2:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-20 19:07 posix_fallocate question again Chen, Kenneth W
2003-08-20 19:53 ` Andrew Morton
2003-08-21  9:00   ` Nikita Danilov
2003-08-21 15:38     ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-21 15:47       ` Nikita Danilov
2003-08-20 20:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-08-21  2:36   ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]

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