linux-ext4 - Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys

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Date:	Fri, 02 Mar 2007 07:23:51 -0600
From:	Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com>,
	"Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, suparna@...ibm.com, cmm@...ibm.com,
	alex@...sterfs.com, suzuki@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

Amit wrote:

>  asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len);

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 22:16 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:03:55 -0800 Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@...ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > Just curious .. What does posix_fallocate() return ?
> 
> bookmark this:
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/nfindex.html
> 
>     Upon successful completion, posix_fallocate() shall return zero;
>     otherwise, an error number shall be returned to indicate the error.

Then there's no need for sys_allocate to return a long.
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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