Re: Implemented fallocate() syscall in streams

From:	Ivan Enderlin @ Hoa	Date:	Thu, 10 Jul 2014 09:18:59 +0000
Subject:	Re: Implemented fallocate() syscall in streams
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On 10/07/2014 11:13, Julien Pauli wrote:

The difference between ftruncate and fallocate is meaningless in userland.
If fallocate is proposed in the user-land, then it will be logical to have it in the stream wrapper API. That's it :-).
I admit that it would be nice for consistency, however I wonder how users will interpret the difference between ftruncate and fallocate. Users will interpret exactly what the documentation says ;-). Since PHP is a scripting language, it is just a collection of cross-platform bindings (on the top of C APIs in the case of php-src). Some bindings are just more advanced ones than others. That's all. Someone will be likely to use fallocate some day, for sure.

Cheers. -- Ivan Enderlin Developer of Hoa http://hoa-project.net/ PhD. student at DISC/Femto-ST (Vesontio) and INRIA (Cassis) http://disc.univ-fcomte.fr/ and http://www.inria.fr/ Member of HTML and WebApps Working Group of W3C http://w3.org/