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@node fallocate
@subsection @code{fallocate}
@findex fallocate

Documentation:@* @uref{https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man2/fallocate.2.html,,man fallocate}

Gnulib module: ---

Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@end itemize

Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
@itemize
@item
This function is missing on many platforms:
glibc 2.9, macOS 14, FreeBSD 14.0, NetBSD 10.0, OpenBSD 7.5, Minix 3.1.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11, Solaris 11.4, Cygwin 3.4.x, mingw, MSVC 14, Android 4.4.
@item
On platforms where @code{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 @code{AC_SYS_LARGEFILE} macro.
@end itemize