From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: Josef Bacik <josef@redhat.com>,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Man page doc for SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:57:16 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E77827C.3030202@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKgNAkhZSb0UfZz7N+gKRQD0r7gnC_3-VCB_ORio8ojczbCDvQ@mail.gmail.com>
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@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-19 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-18 7:07 Man page doc for SEEK_DATA/SEEK_HOLE Michael Kerrisk
2011-09-19 17:57 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2011-09-19 18:27 ` Sunil Mushran
2011-09-19 18:44 ` Eric Blake
2011-09-19 18:57 ` Sunil Mushran
2011-09-20 5:47 ` Michael Kerrisk
2011-09-20 5:24 ` Michael Kerrisk
2011-09-19 18:04 ` Sunil Mushran
2011-09-20 5:32 ` Michael Kerrisk
2011-09-20 15:59 ` Sunil Mushran
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