Re: kern/55712: posix_fallocate() is broken

[Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/55712; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Christos Zoulas <christos%zoulas.com@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%netbsd.org@localhost,
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Subject: Re: kern/55712: posix_fallocate() is broken
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2020 11:03:34 -0400

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 posix_fallocate returns errno, and in this case it returns 45 (EOPNOTSUPP).
 Well, it is not broken, it is just that no filesystem implements it :-)
 
 christos
 
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