linux-kernel - Re: Interface for the new fallocate() system call

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Date:	Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:15:29 +1000
From:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
To:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub@...hat.com>
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, suparna@...ibm.com, cmm@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: Interface for the new fallocate() system call

Jakub Jelinek writes:

> Wouldn't
> int fallocate(loff_t offset, loff_t len, int fd, int mode)
> work on both s390 and ppc/arm?  glibc will certainly wrap it and
> reorder the arguments as needed, so there is no need to keep fd first.

That looks fine to me.

Paul.
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