On Thu, 2009-07-30 at 13:44 -0400, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> > RETURN VALUE
> >        posix_fallocate() returns zero on success, or an error number on  
> > fail‐
> >        ure.  Note that errno is not set.
> 
> What the hell were POSIX people thinking?? This is the first syscall
> I've seen that behaves like this, and apparently without any good
> reason! Wonder how many other new system calls there are like this, that
> I haven't noticed yet..

Looks like all posix_*() syscalls do that. Wonder if there are more.

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