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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-15 19:41:07 +0000
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Merging upstream version 6.7.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
.\"
.\" SPDX-License-Identifier: Linux-man-pages-copyleft
.\"
-.TH posix_fallocate 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH posix_fallocate 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
posix_fallocate \- allocate file space
.SH LIBRARY
@@ -12,16 +12,16 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <fcntl.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "int posix_fallocate(int " fd ", off_t " offset ", off_t " len );
.fi
-.PP
+.P
.ad l
.RS -4
Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see
.BR feature_test_macros (7)):
.RE
-.PP
+.P
.BR posix_fallocate ():
.nf
_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ After a successful call to
.BR posix_fallocate (),
subsequent writes to bytes in the specified range are
guaranteed not to fail because of lack of disk space.
-.PP
+.P
If the size of the file is less than
.IR offset + len ,
then the file is increased to this size;
@@ -109,13 +109,12 @@ T} Thread safety T{
MT-Safe (but see NOTES)
T}
.TE
-.sp 1
.SH STANDARDS
POSIX.1-2008.
.SH HISTORY
glibc 2.1.94.
POSIX.1-2001
-.PP
+.P
POSIX.1-2008 says that an implementation
.I shall
give the
@@ -165,7 +164,7 @@ or
.B O_WRONLY
flags, the function fails with the error
.BR EBADF .
-.PP
+.P
In general, the emulation is not MT-safe.
On Linux, applications may use
.BR fallocate (2)