Hello Eric On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Eric Blake <eblake@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. Thanks for catching that. I've added that point. Cheers, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Author of "The Linux Programming Interface"; http://man7.org/tlpi/ -- 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
