Re: What's wrong with MAP_SHARED|MAP_ANONYMOUS?
Tim Smith (tzs@tzs.net)
Sun, 27 Sep 1998 09:57:14 -0700 (PDT)
On 27 Sep 1998, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > Would it work if you create a scratch file, open it, unlink it, fill it
> > to the right size with zeros and then map it with a shared mapping?
>
> Yes, but you don't even need to fill it with zeros. Just use
> ftruncate(fd, length). This has the advantage that unused blocks won't
> be allocated.
It's probably better to lseek to the length you want and write a zero.
ftruncate is not required by POSIX to allow length to be greater than
the current length of the file, so using it that way is not portable.
--Tim Smith
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