On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:28:15PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > The posix spec implies that negative `len' is permitted - presumably
> > > "allocate
> > > ahead of `offset'". How peculiar.
> >
> > I just checked the man page for posix_fallocate() and it says:
> >
> > EINVAL offset o
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 07:21:46PM +0530, Amit K. Arora wrote:
> Ok.
> In this case we may have to consider following things:
>
> 1) Obviously, for this glibc will have to call fallocate() syscall with
> different arguments on s390, than other archs. I think this should be
> doable and should not
On Thu, Mar 29, 2007 at 10:10:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Platform: s390
> > --
> > s390 prefers following layout:
> >
> >int fallocate(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len, int mode)
> >
> > For details on why and how "int, int, loff_t, loff_t" is a problem on
> > s390, ple
