Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:58:17 -0600 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Doug Barton" <dougb@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: posix_fallocate Message-ID: <op.u7h3n3hi9aq2h7@localhost> In-Reply-To: <4B67CFEF.1020107@FreeBSD.org> References: <4B67CFEF.1020107@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:10:39 -0600, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote: > I'm working on the port of the 0.15 version of rblibtorrent > (http://sourceforge.net/projects/qbittorrent/files/qbittorrent-unstable/libtorrent-rasterbar-0.15.svn.r4203.tar.gz/download?use_mirror=heanet) > and ran into a snag with the following: > > int ret = posix_fallocate(m_fd, 0, s); > > The only reference in /usr/include is: > > /usr/include/fcntl.h: * XXX missing posix_fadvise() and > posix_fallocate(), and POSIX_FADV_* macros. > /usr/include/sys/fcntl.h: * XXX missing posix_fadvise() and > posix_fallocate(), and POSIX_FADV_* macros. > > No references at all in /usr/local/include. > > There is another block of code that could be a solution, but it doesn't > look promising either: > > #ifdef F_PREALLOCATE > fstore_t f = {F_ALLOCATECONTIG, F_PEOFPOSMODE, 0, s, 0}; > if (fcntl(m_fd, F_PREALLOCATE, &f) < 0) > { > ec = error_code(errno, get_posix_category()); > return false; > } > > > > So, any suggestions? :) I did request for anyone to create posix_fallocate() for FreeBSD long time ago. You maybe can follow Transmission's same idea for return as nothing. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2008-November/026590.html Cheers, Mezz > Doug -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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