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home | helpx minix x x minixx POSIX_FALLOCATE(3) Linux Programmer's Manual POSIX_FALLOCATE(3) NAME posix_fallocate - allocate file space SYNOPSIS #include <fcntl.h> int posix_fallocate(int fd, off_t offset, off_t len); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): posix_fallocate(): _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L DESCRIPTION The function posix_fallocate() ensures that disk space is allocated for the file referred to by the file descriptor fd for the bytes in the range starting at offset and continuing for len bytes. After a suc- cessful call to posix_fallocate(), subsequent writes to bytes in the specified range are guaranteed not to fail because of lack of disk space. If the size of the file is less than offset+len, then the file is in- creased to this size; otherwise the file size is left unchanged. RETURN VALUE posix_fallocate() returns zero on success, or an error number on fail- ure. Note that errno is not set. ERRORS EBADF fd is not a valid file descriptor, or is not opened for writing. EFBIG offset+len exceeds the maximum file size. EINTR A signal was caught during execution. EINVAL offset was less than 0, or len was less than or equal to 0, or the underlying filesystem does not support the operation. ENODEV fd does not refer to a regular file. ENOSPC There is not enough space left on the device containing the file referred to by fd. ESPIPE fd refers to a pipe. VERSIONS posix_fallocate() is available since glibc 2.1.94. ATTRIBUTES For an explanation of the terms used in this section, see at- tributes(7). +------------------+---------------+-------------------------+ |Interface | Attribute | Value | +------------------+---------------+-------------------------+ |posix_fallocate() | Thread safety | MT-Safe (but see NOTES) | +------------------+---------------+-------------------------+ CONFORMING TO POSIX.1-2001. POSIX.1-2008 says that an implementation shall give the EINVAL error if len was 0, or offset was less than 0. POSIX.1-2001 says that an imple- mentation shall give the EINVAL error if len is less than 0, or offset was less than 0, and may give the error if len equals zero. NOTES In the glibc implementation, posix_fallocate() is implemented using the fallocate(2) system call, which is MT-safe. If the underlying filesys- tem does not support fallocate(2), then the operation is emulated with the following caveats: * The emulation is inefficient. * There is a race condition where concurrent writes from another thread or process could be overwritten with null bytes. * There is a race condition where concurrent file size increases by an- other thread or process could result in a file whose size is smaller than expected. * If fd has been opened with the O_APPEND or O_WRONLY flags, the func- tion fails with the error EBADF. In general, the emulation is not MT-safe. On Linux, applications may use fallocate(2) if they cannot tolerate the emulation caveats. In general, this is only recommended if the application plans to terminate the operation if EOPNOTSUPP is returned, otherwise the application it- self will need to implement a fallback with all the same problems as the emulation provided by glibc. SEE ALSO fallocate(1), fallocate(2), lseek(2), posix_fadvise(2) COLOPHON This page is part of release 5.05 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, information about reporting bugs, and the latest version of this page, can be found at https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU 2017-09-15 POSIX_FALLOCATE(3)
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