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author | lloyd <[email protected]> | 2010-10-12 15:29:01 +0000 |
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committer | lloyd <[email protected]> | 2010-10-12 15:29:01 +0000 |
commit | bf9ae0d8c0b1e8c7a36ce256d074a236af7fd0f3 (patch) | |
tree | 03fd1ee0cd188b8d57aac00b0f928a1f3148ba47 /src | |
parent | 5d86eaf95f62dd414f6267fbb2f688489718d99e (diff) |
Use a full write instead of seek+write to create a sparse
file. FreeBSD's man page for mmap warns that using NOSYNC with sparse
files causes problems. Closes PR 30
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r-- | src/alloc/alloc_mmap/mmap_mem.cpp | 16 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/src/alloc/alloc_mmap/mmap_mem.cpp b/src/alloc/alloc_mmap/mmap_mem.cpp index 2b27b2908..206b620e4 100644 --- a/src/alloc/alloc_mmap/mmap_mem.cpp +++ b/src/alloc/alloc_mmap/mmap_mem.cpp @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ /* * Memory Mapping Allocator -* (C) 1999-2007 Jack Lloyd +* (C) 1999-2010 Jack Lloyd * * Distributed under the terms of the Botan license */ @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ void* MemoryMapping_Allocator::alloc_block(u32bit n) /* * We can safely close here, because post-mmap the file * will continue to exist until the mmap is unmapped from - * our address space upon deallocation. + * our address space upon deallocation (or process exit). */ if(fd != -1 && ::close(fd) == -1) throw MemoryMapping_Failed("Could not close file"); @@ -84,10 +84,9 @@ void* MemoryMapping_Allocator::alloc_block(u32bit n) if(file.get_fd() == -1) throw MemoryMapping_Failed("Could not create file"); - if(::lseek(file.get_fd(), n-1, SEEK_SET) < 0) - throw MemoryMapping_Failed("Could not seek file"); + std::vector<byte> zeros(n); - if(::write(file.get_fd(), "\0", 1) != 1) + if(::write(file.get_fd(), &zeros[0], zeros.size()) != zeros.size()) throw MemoryMapping_Failed("Could not write to file"); #ifndef MAP_NOSYNC @@ -113,12 +112,11 @@ void MemoryMapping_Allocator::dealloc_block(void* ptr, u32bit n) if(ptr == 0) return; - const byte PATTERNS[] = { 0x00, 0xFF, 0xAA, 0x55, 0x73, 0x8C, 0x5F, 0xA0, - 0x6E, 0x91, 0x30, 0xCF, 0xD3, 0x2C, 0xAC, 0x00 }; + const byte PATTERNS[] = { 0x00, 0xF5, 0x5A, 0xAF, 0x00 }; - for(u32bit j = 0; j != sizeof(PATTERNS); j++) + for(size_t i = 0; i != sizeof(PATTERNS); ++i) { - std::memset(ptr, PATTERNS[j], n); + std::memset(ptr, PATTERNS[i], n); if(::msync((char*)ptr, n, MS_SYNC)) throw MemoryMapping_Failed("Sync operation failed"); |