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-rw-r--r--configure.ac3
-rw-r--r--fish/alloc.c19
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index b13eaf9b..cfad704f 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -134,6 +134,9 @@ AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED([host_cpu],["$host_cpu"],[Host architecture.])
dnl Headers.
AC_CHECK_HEADERS([errno.h sys/types.h sys/un.h sys/wait.h sys/socket.h endian.h byteswap.h])
+dnl Functions.
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([posix_fallocate])
+
dnl Build the daemon?
AC_MSG_CHECKING([if we should build the daemon])
AC_ARG_ENABLE([daemon],
diff --git a/fish/alloc.c b/fish/alloc.c
index ad2dccc2..28c990f1 100644
--- a/fish/alloc.c
+++ b/fish/alloc.c
@@ -54,12 +54,31 @@ do_alloc (const char *cmd, int argc, char *argv[])
return -1;
}
+#ifdef HAVE_POSIX_FALLOCATE
if (posix_fallocate (fd, 0, size) == -1) {
perror ("fallocate");
close (fd);
unlink (argv[0]);
return -1;
}
+#else
+ /* Slow emulation of posix_fallocate on platforms which don't have it. */
+ char buffer[BUFSIZ];
+ memset (buffer, 0, sizeof buffer);
+
+ size_t remaining = size;
+ while (remaining > 0) {
+ size_t n = remaining > sizeof buffer ? sizeof buffer : remaining;
+ ssize_t r = write (fd, buffer, n);
+ if (r == -1) {
+ perror ("write");
+ close (fd);
+ unlink (argv[0]);
+ return -1;
+ }
+ remaining -= r;
+ }
+#endif
if (close (fd) == -1) {
perror (argv[0]);