> One other thing we're interested in is portability. I mean, even if > Linux were to introduce a new hypothetical syscall that was able to > return the file size at a ridiculously low cost, we probably wouldn't > use it because it'd be Linux-specific. So an improvement of lseek() > seems to be the best option. Fully agreed. It doesn't make any sense at all to implement special syscalls just to workaround a basic system call not scaling. -Andi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
