Followup to: <[email protected]>
By author: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 15:23 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
> >
> > We discussed this in madvise(REMOVE) thread - to add support
> > for sys_punchhole(fd, offset, len) to complete the functionality
> > (in the future).
>
> in the past always this was said to be "really hard" in linux locking
> wise, esp. the locking with respect to truncate...
>
> did you find a solution to this problem ?
For the sake of completeness, it should probably be stated that the
utility of such a function is pretty clear.
-hpa
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