this is equivalent to posix_fallocate except that it has an extra mode/flags argument to control its behavior, and stores the error in errno rather than returning an error code.
@@ -116,10 +116,13 @@ struct f_owner_ex {
int type;
pid_t pid;
};
+#define FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE 1
+#define FALLOC_FL_PUNCH_HOLE 2
#define SPLICE_F_MOVE 1
#define SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK 2
#define SPLICE_F_MORE 4
#define SPLICE_F_GIFT 8
+int fallocate(int, int, off_t, off_t);
ssize_t vmsplice(int, const struct iovec *, size_t, unsigned);
ssize_t splice(int, off_t *, int, off_t *, size_t, unsigned);
#define loff_t off_t
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#define _GNU_SOURCE
+#include <fcntl.h>
+#include "syscall.h"
+
+int fallocate(int fd, int mode, off_t base, off_t len)
+{
+ return syscall(SYS_fallocate, fd, mode, __SYSCALL_LL_E(base),
+ __SYSCALL_LL_E(len));
+}