From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17249.25537.622745.577885@wombat.chubb.wattle.id.au> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:33:21 +1000 From: Peter Chubb Subject: Re: [RFC] madvise(MADV_TRUNCATE) In-Reply-To: <20051027161602.38a4051b.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1130366995.23729.38.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200510271038.52277.ak@suse.de> <20051027131725.GI5091@opteron.random> <1130425212.23729.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051027151123.GO5091@opteron.random> <20051027112054.10e945ae.akpm@osdl.org> <20051027200434.GT5091@opteron.random> <20051027135058.2f72e706.akpm@osdl.org> <20051027213721.GX5091@opteron.random> <20051027152340.5e3ae2c6.akpm@osdl.org> <1130454352.23729.134.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20051027161602.38a4051b.akpm@osdl.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Badari Pulavarty , andrea@suse.de, ak@suse.de, hugh@veritas.com, jdike@addtoit.com, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: >>>>> "Andrew" == Andrew Morton writes: Andrew> Can we do sys_fholepunch(int fd, loff_t offset, loff_t Andrew> length)? That requires that your applications know both the Andrew> fd and the file offset. Can we copy the SvR4 fcntl(int fd, F_FREESP, struct flock *lkp) ?? It'd ease the porting burden for some things. -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au The technical we do immediately, the political takes *forever* -- 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