filemap_write_and_wait_range(9)

filemap_write_and_wait_range9

Write out & wait on a file range

Usage

int filemap_write_and_wait_range(struct address_space * mapping, loff_t lstart, loff_t lend);

Arguments

mapping

the address_space for the pages

lstart

offset in bytes where the range starts

lend

offset in bytes where the range ends (inclusive)

Overview

Write out and wait upon file offsets lstart->lend, inclusive.

Note that `lend' is inclusive (describes the last byte to be written) so that this function can be used to write to the very end-of-file (end = -1).

Releases

4 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 6.0
  2. 7
  3. 8
  4. 9

From linux-manual-4.9 4.9.228-1 in Debian 9 (Stretch). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.