On Friday 11 November 2005 02:25, Ingo Oeser wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Friday 11 November 2005 00:32, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Badari Pulavarty <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > We discussed this in madvise(REMOVE) thread - to add support
> > > for sys_punchhole(fd, offset, len) to complete the functionality
> > > (in the future).
You know, if you wanted to get really really gross and disgusting about this,
you could always have write(fd, NULL, count) punch a hole in the file. (Then
have libc's write() check for NULL and error out, and have a seprate punch()
call that does the write with the null...)
Just one way to avoid introducing a new syscall...
Rob
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