The return of SEEK_HOLE

Posted Apr 30, 2011 19:23 UTC (Sat) by jrn (subscriber, #64214)
In reply to: The return of SEEK_HOLE by dlang
Parent article: The return of SEEK_HOLE

See "man pathconf".

Linux doesn't support Solaris's _PC_MIN_HOLE_SIZE currently. It doesn't seem very useful --- it just lets applications know, any hole will be at least such-and-such size (e.g., 512 bytes).