Miguel de Icaza writes:
>
> This is my next show stopper:
>
> There is a misterious fcntl call in the IRIX Xsgi server:
> it is called with the F_ALLOCSP flag, what is this flag used for in
> the X server setup code?
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This fcntl() sets the size of a file, and assures that
the underlying storage is really assigned. From fcntl(2):
F_FREESP Alter storage space associated with a section of the ordinary
file fildes. The section is specified by a variable of data
type struct flock pointed to by the third argument arg. The
data type struct flock is defined in the <fcntl.h> header file
[see fcntl(5)] and contains the following members: l_whence is
0, 1, or 2 to indicate that the relative offset l_start will be
measured from the start of the file, the current position, or
the end of the file, respectively. l_start is the offset from
the position specified in l_whence. l_len is the size of the
section. An l_len of 0 frees up to the end of the file; in
this case, the end of file (i.e., file size) is set to the
beginning of the section freed. Any data previously written
into this section is no longer accessible. If the section
specified is beyond the current end of file, the file is grown
and filled with zeroes. The l_len field is currently ignored,
and should be set to 0.
F_ALLOCSP This command is identical to F_FREESP.
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