From: Paul Mackerras Subject: Re: Interface for the new fallocate() system call Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:15:29 +1000 Message-ID: <17932.54577.163137.202721__19885.0952474915$1175292955$gmane$org@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> References: <20070117094658.GA17390@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070225022326.137b4875.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070301183445.GA7911@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070316143101.GA10152@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070316161704.GE8525@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20070317111036.GC29931@parisc-linux.org> <20070321120425.GA27273@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070329115126.GB7374@amitarora.in.ibm.com> <20070329101010.7a2b8783.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070330071417.GI355@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrew Morton , "Amit K. Arora" , torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, suparna@in.ibm.com, cmm@us.ibm.com To: Jakub Jelinek Return-path: Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:57164 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751654AbXC3Kci (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Mar 2007 06:32:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20070330071417.GI355@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Sender: linux-ext4-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-ext4.vger.kernel.org Jakub Jelinek writes: > Wouldn't > int fallocate(loff_t offset, loff_t len, int fd, int mode) > work on both s390 and ppc/arm? glibc will certainly wrap it and > reorder the arguments as needed, so there is no need to keep fd first. That looks fine to me. Paul.