Hi Christoph, Ping? Cheers, Michael On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:32 AM, Denis Barbier <bouzim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> When translating sync_file_range.2 I had been confused by this sentence: >> >> When writing into preallocated space, many filesystems also >> require calls into the block allocator, which this system >> call does not sync out to disk. >> >> Can someone please rephrase it? In particular, what does 'which' refer to? >> Thanks. > > Actually, now that I look more closely at it, I realize that I find it > hard to parse too. > > Christoph wrote that sentence. perhaps he can help? > > Cheers, > > Michael > > > -- > Michael Kerrisk > Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ > Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface" http://blog.man7.org/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
