From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate() Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:16:52 -0800 Message-ID: <20070301221652.2aa3e973.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20070117094658.GA17390@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070225022326.137b4875.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070301183445.GA7911@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <45E7BE4B.5070602@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Amit K. Arora" , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, suparna@in.ibm.com, cmm@us.ibm.com, alex@clusterfs.com, suzuki@in.ibm.com To: Badari Pulavarty Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.24]:44706 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422948AbXCBGRv (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 Mar 2007 01:17:51 -0500 In-Reply-To: <45E7BE4B.5070602@us.ibm.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:03:55 -0800 Badari Pulavarty 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.