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POSIX_FALLOCATE(2) System Calls Manual POSIX_FALLOCATE(2) NAME posix_fallocate -- pre-allocate storage for a range in a file LIBRARY Standard C Library (libc, -lc) SYNOPSIS #include <fcntl.h> int posix_fallocate(int fd, off_t offset, off_t len); DESCRIPTION Required storage for the range offset to offset + len in the file ref- erenced by fd is guarateed to be allocated upon successful return. That is, if posix_fallocate() returns successfully, subsequent writes to the specified file data will not fail due to lack of free space on the file system storage media. Any existing file data in the specified range is unmodified. If offset + len is beyond the current file size, then posix_fallocate() will adjust the file size to offset + len. Oth- erwise, the file size will not be changed. Space allocated by posix_fallocate() will be freed by a successful call to creat(2) or open(2) that truncates the size of the file. Space al- located via posix_fallocate() may be freed by a successful call to ftruncate(2) that reduces the file size to a size smaller than offset + len. RETURN VALUES If successful, posix_fallocate() returns zero. It returns -1 on fail- ure, and sets errno to indicate the error. ERRORS Possible failure conditions: [EBADF] The fd argument is not a valid file descriptor. [EBADF] The fd argument references a file that was opened without write permission. [EFBIG] The value of offset + len is greater than the maxi- mum file size. [EINTR] A signal was caught during execution. [EINVAL] The len argument was zero or the offset argument was less than zero. [EIO] An I/O error occurred while reading from or writing to a file system. [ENODEV] The fd argument does not refer to a regular file. [ENOSPC] There is insufficient free space remaining on the file system storage media. [ESPIPE] The fd argument is associated with a pipe or FIFO. SEE ALSO creat(2), ftruncate(2), open(2), unlink(2) STANDARDS The posix_fallocate() system call conforms to IEEE Std 1003.1-2004 ("POSIX.1"). HISTORY The posix_fallocate() function appeared in FreeBSD 9.0. AUTHORS posix_fallocate() and this manual page were initially written by Matthew Fleming <mdf@FreeBSD.org>. FreeBSD 8.3 April 13, 2011 POSIX_FALLOCATE(2)
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