POSIX_FALLOCATE
POSIX_FALLOCATE
NAMESYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
RETURN VALUE
ERRORS
VERSIONS
ATTRIBUTES
CONFORMING TO
SEE ALSO
COLOPHON
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():
_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600 || _POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
DESCRIPTION
The function posix_fallocate() ensures that disk space is allocated for the file referred to by the descriptor fd for the bytes in the range starting at offset and continuing for len bytes. After a successful 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 increased to this size; otherwise the file size is left unchanged.
RETURN VALUE
posix_fallocate() returns zero on success, or an error number on failure. Note that errno is not set.
ERRORS
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EBADF |
fd is not a valid file descriptor, or is not opened for writing. | ||
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EFBIG |
offset+len exceeds the maximum file size. | ||
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EINVAL |
offset was less than 0, or len was less than or equal to 0. | ||
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ENODEV |
fd does not refer to a regular file. | ||
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ENOSPC |
There is not enough space left on the device containing the file referred to by fd. | ||
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ESPIPE |
fd refers to a pipe. |
VERSIONS
posix_fallocate() is available since glibc 2.1.94.
ATTRIBUTES
Multithreading
(see pthreads(7))
The posix_fallocate() function is thread-safe.
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 implementation 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.
SEE ALSO
fallocate(1), fallocate(2), lseek(2), posix_fadvise(2)
COLOPHON
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