On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:50:44PM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > Suparna Bhattacharya writes: > > > > This looks like it will have the same problem on s390 as > > > sys_sync_file_range. Maybe the prototype should be: > > > > > > asmlinkage long sys_fallocate(loff_t offset, loff_t len, int fd, int mode) > > > > Yes, but the trouble is that there was a contrary viewpoint preferring that fd > > first be maintained as a convention like other syscalls (see the following > > posts) > > Of course the interface used by an application program would have the > fd first. Glibc can do the translation. I think that was understood. Regards Suparna > > Paul. -- Suparna Bhattacharya ([email protected]) Linux Technology Center IBM Software Lab, India - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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