peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) (07/20/90)
In article <139015@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> lm@sun.UUCP (Larry McVoy) writes: > Can we please get this drivel out of unix-wizards? Take it to unix-questions > where it belongs. Please. The actual underlying problem, that you can't pre-allocate space on disk for a file, is a real wizard-type problem. What sort of interface would you use to do this on UNIX? A "mkfile" system call, or a fcntl that says "allocate all blocks... don't leave holes"? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. <peter@ficc.ferranti.com>