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authorFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2018-08-21 12:56:53 +0200
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2018-08-21 12:56:53 +0200
commitaa42b3dbcb0326badf377fec2c7fb2f34fdabecd (patch)
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Avoid running some tests if the file system does not support holes
Otherwise, these tests fills up the entire disk (or just run very
slowly and eventually time out).
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diff --git a/support/support.h b/support/support.h
index b61fe0735c..34ae6e10cd 100644
--- a/support/support.h
+++ b/support/support.h
@@ -65,6 +65,12 @@ void support_write_file_string (const char *path, const char *contents);
    the result).  */
 char *support_quote_blob (const void *blob, size_t length);
 
+/* Returns non-zero if the file descriptor is a regular file on a file
+   system which supports holes (that is, seeking and writing does not
+   allocate storage for the range of zeros).  FD must refer to a
+   regular file open for writing, and initially empty.  */
+int support_descriptor_supports_holes (int fd);
+
 /* Error-checking wrapper functions which terminate the process on
    error.  */