On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Nagesh Sharyathi wrote:
>       This patch is provided to address a situation where the application
> is 32 bit and kernel is 64 bit.
> We need to call compat_sys only under such situation.

i know ... i stated that your current uname() assumption is inadequate as they 
dont cover all the possibilities, just the ones you happened to test.

>       More over support for this is already there in current version of
> glibc (CVS repository) so we have to wait till distros pick up the glibc.
> Than we can make fallocate calls (glibc internal posix_fallocate()) to
> glibc instead of calling syscall(). Regarding support to more architecture
> I didnt add many as I saw this as temporary solution till we start using
> glibc implementation.

fallocate is already released in (at least) glibc-2.6.  so i think changing 
over to posix_fallocate()/posix_fallocate64() now is OK.
-mike

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