Hi,
I'm looking for a fast way to initialise a file to zeroes
(without holes) and reckoned that sendfile from /dev/zero
would be the way to go.
But, unfortunately, sendfile (in 2.2 and 2.4) appears not
to support sendfile(2)ing a device:
$ cat foo.c
main()
{
if(sendfile(1, 0, 0, 1024) < 0)
perror("failed");
}
$ cc foo.c
$ ./a.out </etc/passwd >/dev/null
$ ./a.out </dev/zero >/tmp/test
failed: Invalid argument
I haven't played the printk game, but it looks like it may
be tripping up on the fact that devices don't support locks.
Or is it the lack of a ->readpage() method on /dev/zero?
Matthew.
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