[PATCH 4/4] Remove broken posix_fallocate, posix_falllocate64 fallback code [BZ#15661]

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Tue May 5 15:59:00 GMT 2015


On 05/05/2015 08:37 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:
> On 04/24/2015 02:53 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> The previous implementation could result in silent data corruption,
>> and this has been observed to happen with application code.
> I'd appreciate some comment on this patch.  Do you agree that this is
> the right approach?
>

I just now read the bug report and patch and agree that the patch is the 
right way to go.



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