From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264585AbTLLNnR (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:43:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264589AbTLLNnQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:43:16 -0500 Received: from mail.fh-wedel.de ([213.39.232.194]:3765 "EHLO mail.fh-wedel.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264585AbTLLNnM (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Dec 2003 08:43:12 -0500 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 14:43:01 +0100 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel To: Vladimir Saveliev Cc: Rob Landley , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is there a "make hole" (truncate in middle) syscall? Message-ID: <20031212134301.GD6112@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> References: <20031211125806.B2422@hexapodia.org> <017c01c3c01b$232bd130$d43147ab@amer.cisco.com> <20031211194815.GA10029@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <200312111432.12683.rob@landley.net> <20031212125513.GC6112@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <1071235698.27730.146.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <1071235698.27730.146.camel@tribesman.namesys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 12 December 2003 16:28:18 +0300, Vladimir Saveliev wrote: > > Sorry, > but doesn't truncate do almost exactly what "make hole" is supposed to > do? Yeah, *almost* exactly. Some people happen to care about the almost. Jörn -- Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. -- Doug MacIlroy