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| From: | Eric Blake |
| Subject: | bug#9500: [PATCH]: use posix_fallocate where supported |
| Date: | Wed, 14 Sep 2011 08:06:49 -0600 |
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On 09/13/2011 11:55 PM, Kelly Anderson wrote:
Hi, I put together a patch 2 or 3 years ago (back when posix_fallocate was first introduced in glibc).
Thanks for the effort. However, this has been discussed in the past, and the consensus was that we should first write a patch to gnulib that provides a posix_fallocate() stub for all platforms, so that coreutils can unconditionally call posix_fallocate, rather than making coreutils have to use #ifdef. Among other things, a gnulib module would make it possible to emulate posix_fallocate() even on older glibc where it is missing or broken.
-- Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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