Jörn Engel wrote: > The bad news for posix_fallocate() is that even if libc is smart enough > to write random data, mmap() can still cause problems.
This is not smart, quite to the contrary. The standard guarantees that all not-yet-written-to places in the file are zero. And if a block has already been written posix_fallocate cannot change it. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
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