macOS: implement posix_fallocate().

2 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/portability.c b/lib/portability.c
index d48a3b4d..0b5677cc 100644
--- a/lib/portability.c
+++ b/lib/portability.c
@@ -396,6 +396,23 @@ int mknodat(int dirfd, const char *path, mode_t mode, dev_t dev)
   if (fchdir(old_dirfd) == -1) perror_exit("mknodat couldn't return");
   return result;
 }
+
+// As of 10.15, macOS offers an fcntl F_PREALLOCATE rather than fallocate()
+// or posix_fallocate() calls.
+int posix_fallocate(int fd, off_t offset, off_t length)
+{
+  int e = errno, result;
+  fstore_t f;
+
+  f.fst_flags = F_ALLOCATEALL;
+  f.fst_posmode = F_PEOFPOSMODE;
+  f.fst_offset = offset;
+  f.fst_length = length;
+  if (fcntl(fd, F_PREALLOCATE, &f) == -1) result = errno;
+  else result = ftruncate(fd, length);
+  errno = e;
+  return result;
+}
 #endif
 
 // Signals required by POSIX 2008:
diff --git a/lib/portability.h b/lib/portability.h
index fb4e0383..896fba34 100644
--- a/lib/portability.h
+++ b/lib/portability.h
@@ -201,9 +201,10 @@ ssize_t xattr_lset(const char*, const char*, const void*, size_t, int);
 ssize_t xattr_fset(int, const char*, const void*, size_t, int);
 #endif
 
-// macOS doesn't have mknodat, but we can fake it.
+// macOS doesn't have these functions, but we can fake them.
 #ifdef __APPLE__
 int mknodat(int, const char*, mode_t, dev_t);
+int posix_fallocate(int, off_t, off_t);
 #endif
 
 // Android is missing some headers and functions