Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

[Dave Kleikamp]

Amit wrote:

>  asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t len);

On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 22:16 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:03:55 -0800 Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Just curious .. What does posix_fallocate() return ?
> 
> bookmark this:
> 
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/nfindex.html
> 
>     Upon successful completion, posix_fallocate() shall return zero;
>     otherwise, an error number shall be returned to indicate the error.

Then there's no need for sys_allocate to return a long.
-- 
David Kleikamp
IBM Linux Technology Center

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