Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()

From: Alan
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 16:56:56 EST


On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:14:32 -0800
Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Amit K. Arora wrote:
> > + if (inode->i_op && inode->i_op->fallocate)
> > + ret = inode->i_op->fallocate(inode, offset, len);
> > + else
> > + ret = -ENOTTY;
>
> You can only allocate space on typewriters? ;)

A lot of people get confused about -ENOTTY, but it is the return for
attempting to use an ioctl on the wrong type of object, so this appears
to be quite correct.
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