From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: [RFC] sys_punchhole() From: Arjan van de Ven In-Reply-To: <1131664994.25354.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1131664994.25354.36.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 06:18:33 +0100 Message-Id: <1131686314.2833.0.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Badari Pulavarty Cc: akpm@osdl.org, andrea@suse.de, hugh@veritas.com, lkml , linux-mm List-ID: On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 15:23 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote: > > We discussed this in madvise(REMOVE) thread - to add support > for sys_punchhole(fd, offset, len) to complete the functionality > (in the future). in the past always this was said to be "really hard" in linux locking wise, esp. the locking with respect to truncate... did you find a solution to this problem ? > -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org