Paul Eggert wrote:
> Pádraig Brady writes:
>
>> Well libc, kernel or filesystem could return ENOSYS
>> so code using fallocate() has to handle it anyway.
>
> If memory serves, ordinarily gnulib tries to catch such situations,
> and to substitute a working function when the kernel just has a stub
Pádraig Brady writes:
> Well libc, kernel or filesystem could return ENOSYS
> so code using fallocate() has to handle it anyway.
If memory serves, ordinarily gnulib tries to catch such situations,
and to substitute a working function when the kernel just has a stub
that returns ENOSYS. However,
Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hello Pádraig,
>
> The documentation files you sent document the status before any 'fallocate'
> module is added to gnulib. So I committed them for you:
>
> 2009-05-21 Pádraig Brady
>
> * doc/glibc-functions/fallocate.texi: New file.
> * doc/gnulib.texi: Incl
Bruno Haible wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> We could also check at configure time for AC_CHECK_SIZEOF([mode_t]), then
>> use the preprocessor to skip the unneeded branch altogether using the
>> appropriate macro from config.h.
>
> Yes. Paul Eggert tried to avoid configure-time checks that could also
Hello Pádraig,
The documentation files you sent document the status before any 'fallocate'
module is added to gnulib. So I committed them for you:
2009-05-21 Pádraig Brady
* doc/glibc-functions/fallocate.texi: New file.
* doc/gnulib.texi: Include it.
The fallocate.texi will n
