On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 02:41:50PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Andrew Morton writes: > > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:33:32 +0530 "Amit K. Arora" <aarora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > This patch implements the fallocate() system call and adds support for > > > i386, x86_64 and powerpc. > > > > > > ... > > > > > > +asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len) > > > > Please add a comment over this function which specifies its behaviour. > > Really it should be enough material from which a full manpage can be > > written. > > This looks like it will have the same problem on s390 as > sys_sync_file_range. Maybe the prototype should be: > > asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(loff_t offset, loff_t len, int fd, int mode) Yes, but the trouble is that there was a contrary viewpoint preferring that fd first be maintained as a convention like other syscalls (see the following posts) http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=117585330016809&w=2 (Andreas) http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=117690157917378&w=2 (Andreas) http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=117578821827323&w=2 (Randy) So we are kind of deadlocked, aren't we ? The debates on the proposed solution for s390 http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=117760995610639&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=117708124913098&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-fsdevel&m=117767607229807&w=2 Are there any better ideas ? Regards Suparna > > Paul. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@xxxxxxxxxx) Linux Technology Center IBM Software Lab, India - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
