COPY_FILE_RANGE(2) | Linux Programmer's Manual | COPY_FILE_RANGE(2) |
copy_file_range - Copy a range of data from one file to another
#define _GNU_SOURCE #include <unistd.h>
ssize_t copy_file_range(int fd_in, loff_t *off_in, int fd_out, loff_t *off_out, size_t len, unsigned int flags);
The copy_file_range() system call performs an in-kernel copy between two file descriptors without the additional cost of transferring data from the kernel to user space and then back into the kernel. It copies up to len bytes of data from file descriptor fd_in to file descriptor fd_out, overwriting any data that exists within the requested range of the target file.
The following semantics apply for off_in, and similar statements apply to off_out:
The flags argument is provided to allow for future extensions and currently must be to 0.
Upon successful completion, copy_file_range() will return the number of bytes copied between files. This could be less than the length originally requested.
On error, copy_file_range() returns -1 and errno is set to indicate the error.
The copy_file_range() system call first appeared in Linux 4.5, but glibc 2.27 provides a user-space emulation when it is not available.
The copy_file_range() system call is a nonstandard Linux and GNU extension.
If file_in is a sparse file, then copy_file_range() may expand any holes existing in the requested range. Users may benefit from calling copy_file_range() in a loop, and using the lseek(2) SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE operations to find the locations of data segments.
copy_file_range() gives filesystems an opportunity to implement "copy acceleration" techniques, such as the use of reflinks (i.e., two or more inodes that share pointers to the same copy-on-write disk blocks) or server-side-copy (in the case of NFS).
#define _GNU_SOURCE #include <fcntl.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <sys/stat.h> #include <sys/syscall.h> #include <unistd.h> /* On versions of glibc before 2.27, we must invoke copy_file_range()
using syscall(2) */ static loff_t copy_file_range(int fd_in, loff_t *off_in, int fd_out,
loff_t *off_out, size_t len, unsigned int flags) {
return syscall(__NR_copy_file_range, fd_in, off_in, fd_out,
off_out, len, flags); } int main(int argc, char **argv) {
int fd_in, fd_out;
struct stat stat;
loff_t len, ret;
if (argc != 3) {
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s <source> <destination>\n", argv[0]);
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
fd_in = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY);
if (fd_in == -1) {
perror("open (argv[1])");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
if (fstat(fd_in, &stat) == -1) {
perror("fstat");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
len = stat.st_size;
fd_out = open(argv[2], O_CREAT | O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC, 0644);
if (fd_out == -1) {
perror("open (argv[2])");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
do {
ret = copy_file_range(fd_in, NULL, fd_out, NULL, len, 0);
if (ret == -1) {
perror("copy_file_range");
exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
}
len -= ret;
} while (len > 0);
close(fd_in);
close(fd_out);
exit(EXIT_SUCCESS); }
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2018-02-02 | Linux |