On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > I would argue that the current behavior is, if not incorrect (we define our > own ABI after all) at least unwanted (we want our ABI to be as close as > practical to the POSIX API.) I think we care a WHOLE LOT more about binary compatibility than we care about some POSIX case for a braindamaged and fundamentally broken system call anyway. The thing is, ftruncate() should take loff_t these days, so the old POSIX language is about a pointless system call where the _only_ thing that matters is legacy - and that legacy trumps any POSIX concerns. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
