Re: [PATCH 1/2] libc: fix setting return value and errno in fallocate()
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer <[email protected]> Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:52:28 +0200
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On September 16, 2015 9:20:31 PM GMT+02:00, Waldemar Brodkorb <[email protected]> wrote: >Hi Yuriy, > >can you explain why these patches are useful? posix_fallocate does not set errno, the non-standard, Linux fallocate does, according to its manpage (and returns -1 upon error). >Better standard conformance? Testsuite or runtime fixes? So at least the former. Should double check not to regress the posix variant.. ( or maybe that's a bug in the standard, didn't look yet). HTH, > >Thanks > Waldemar