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Subject: Re: [RFC] Heads up on sys_fallocate()
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On 3/2/07, Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Then there's no need for sys_allocate to return a long.

Every syscall must return a long.  Otherwise you can have problems on
64-bit archs.