Re: [RFC] sys_punchhole()

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Fri Nov 11 2005 - 00:18:47 EST


On Thu, 2005-11-10 at 15:23 -0800, Badari Pulavarty wrote:
>
> We discussed this in madvise(REMOVE) thread - to add support
> for sys_punchhole(fd, offset, len) to complete the functionality
> (in the future).

in the past always this was said to be "really hard" in linux locking
wise, esp. the locking with respect to truncate...

did you find a solution to this problem ?
>

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