From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: Interface for the new fallocate() system call
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:15:29 +1000
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Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Amit K. Arora" <aarora@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
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To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
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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.