Re: posix_fallocate

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@redhat.com)
14 Apr 2000 08:55:03 -0700


Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@sonera.fi> writes:

> Ack. Without adding any new syscalls, I think this, and
> fadvice should be implemented as FCNTL things.

Urgh, avoid fcntl. The problem is one cannot distinguish calls with
non-existing operations from those with invalid arguments etc.
Besides, fcntl is slow because of the overhead.

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