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146 lines
4.0 KiB
Groff
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.\" @(#)open.2 8.2 (Berkeley) 11/16/93
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd February 25, 2012
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.Dt POSIX_FALLOCATE 2
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm posix_fallocate
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.Nd pre-allocate storage for a range in a file
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.Sh LIBRARY
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.Lb libc
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.In fcntl.h
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.Ft int
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.Fn posix_fallocate "int fd" "off_t offset" "off_t len"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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Required storage for the range
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.Fa offset
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to
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.Fa offset +
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.Fa len
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in the file referenced by
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.Fa fd
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is guaranteed to be allocated upon successful return.
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That is, if
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.Fn posix_fallocate
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returns successfully, subsequent writes to the specified file data
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will not fail due to lack of free space on the file system storage
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media.
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Any existing file data in the specified range is unmodified.
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If
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.Fa offset +
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.Fa len
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is beyond the current file size, then
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.Fn posix_fallocate
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will adjust the file size to
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.Fa offset +
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.Fa len .
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Otherwise, the file size will not be changed.
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.Pp
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Space allocated by
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.Fn posix_fallocate
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will be freed by a successful call to
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.Xr creat 2
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or
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.Xr open 2
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that truncates the size of the file.
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Space allocated via
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.Fn posix_fallocate
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may be freed by a successful call to
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.Xr ftruncate 2
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that reduces the file size to a size smaller than
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.Fa offset +
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.Fa len .
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.Sh RETURN VALUES
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If successful,
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.Fn posix_fallocate
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returns zero.
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It returns -1 on failure, and sets
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.Va errno
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to indicate the error.
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.Sh ERRORS
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Possible failure conditions:
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.Bl -tag -width Er
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.It Bq Er EBADF
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The
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.Fa fd
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argument is not a valid file descriptor.
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.It Bq Er EBADF
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The
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.Fa fd
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argument references a file that was opened without write permission.
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.It Bq Er EFBIG
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The value of
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.Fa offset +
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.Fa len
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is greater than the maximum file size.
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.It Bq Er EINTR
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A signal was caught during execution.
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.It Bq Er EINVAL
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The
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.Fa len
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argument was zero or the
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.Fa offset
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argument was less than zero.
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.It Bq Er EIO
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An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to a file system.
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.It Bq Er ENODEV
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The
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.Fa fd
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argument does not refer to a regular file.
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.It Bq Er ENOSPC
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There is insufficient free space remaining on the file system storage
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media.
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.It Bq Er ESPIPE
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The
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.Fa fd
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argument is associated with a pipe or FIFO.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr creat 2 ,
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.Xr ftruncate 2 ,
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.Xr open 2 ,
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.Xr unlink 2
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.Sh STANDARDS
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The
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.Fn posix_fallocate
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system call conforms to
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.St -p1003.1-2004 .
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Fn posix_fallocate
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function appeared in
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.Fx 9.0 .
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.Fn posix_fallocate
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and this manual page were initially written by
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.An Matthew Fleming Aq mdf@FreeBSD.org .
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