On 09/13/2011 11:55 PM, Kelly Anderson wrote:
Hi,
I put together a patch 2 or 3 years ago (back when posix_fallocate was
first introduced in glibc).
Thanks for the effort. However, this has been discussed in the past,
and the consensus was that we should first write a patch to gnulib that
provides a posix_fallocate() stub for all platforms, so that coreutils
can unconditionally call posix_fallocate, rather than making coreutils
have to use #ifdef. Among other things, a gnulib module would make it
possible to emulate posix_fallocate() even on older glibc where it is
missing or broken.
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