https://lwn.net/Articles/240571/ This is a special feed containing comments posted to the individual LWN article titled "The ongoing fallocate() story". en-us Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:36:05 +0000 Wed, 15 Oct 2025 14:36:05 +0000 https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification lwn@lwn.net https://lwn.net/Articles/241749/ https://lwn.net/Articles/241749/ jkm all syscalls are important. they form an ABI which we must maintain forever, basically. getting them right the first time is pretty damned important.<br> Sat, 14 Jul 2007 17:59:31 +0000 https://lwn.net/Articles/240984/ https://lwn.net/Articles/240984/ dion Bikeshed.<br> <p> This is clearly one of the simplest and least critical syscalls ever conceived so it only makes sense that it would take forever to settle the details.<br> <p> Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:32:16 +0000