linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH 1/5] fallocate() implementation in i86, x86

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Message-ID: <20070509111011.GA21619@in.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 9 May 2007 16:40:11 +0530
From:	Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@...ibm.com>
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Amit K. Arora" <aarora@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
	xfs@....sgi.com, cmm@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] fallocate() implementation in i86, x86_64 and powerpc

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:50:44PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Suparna Bhattacharya writes:
> 
> > > 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)
> 
> Of course the interface used by an application program would have the
> fd first.  Glibc can do the translation.

I think that was understood.

Regards
Suparna

> 
> Paul.

-- 
Suparna Bhattacharya (suparna@...ibm.com)
Linux Technology Center
IBM Software Lab, India

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