POSIX allocation function....

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Fri Jul 29 18:13:23 GMT 2005


On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 04:11:00AM +1000, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> On Saturday 30 July 2005 02:51, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> > OOh - lookee here !
> >
> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/posix_fallocate.h
> >tml
> >
> > Finally a way to do this. It's not implemented on Linux (and probably all
> > other systems of course :-) but it's finally the "posix" way to do
> > allocation.
> 
> Naturally it would be too much to expect a Posix deallocation interface to 
> arrive at the same time...

I thought that was ftruncate ? :-)


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