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fallocate() - ignoring POSIX

Posted Mar 26, 2007 14:28 UTC (Mon) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)
Parent article: fallocate()

I don't know if I'm reading this right, but are they proposing to ignore the POSIX standard?

Rich.

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Posted Mar 29, 2007 6:55 UTC (Thu) by pjdc (subscriber, #6906) [Link]

Surely the C library can easily implement posix_fallocate() in terms of fallocate().