9.634 posix_fallocate

POSIX specification:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/posix_fallocate.html

Gnulib module: —

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:

• This function is missing on some platforms: Mac OS X 10.5, FreeBSD 6.0, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 3.8, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, IRIX 6.5, OSF/1 5.1, Solaris 10, Cygwin 1.5.x, mingw, MSVC 9, Interix 3.5, BeOS.
• On platforms where off_t is a 32-bit type, this function may not work correctly across the entire data range of files larger than 2 GB. The fix is to use the AC_SYS_LARGEFILE macro.