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Find data positions of sparse file with SEEK_DATA & SEEK_HOLE, this does not work in Ubuntu 12.04.
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#define _FILE_OFFSET_BITS 64 | |
#include <stdio.h> | |
#include <stdlib.h> | |
#include <sys/types.h> | |
#include <sys/stat.h> | |
#include <unistd.h> | |
#include <fcntl.h> | |
#ifndef SEEK_DATA | |
#warning "SEEK_DATA is undeclared and manually defined." | |
#define SEEK_DATA 3 /* seek to the next data */ | |
#endif | |
#ifndef SEEK_HOLE | |
#warning "SEEK_HOLE is undeclared and manually defined." | |
#define SEEK_HOLE 4 /* seek to the next hole */ | |
#endif | |
int main(int argc, char ** argv) | |
{ | |
if (argc != 2) { | |
fprintf(stderr, "Usage: %s file\n", argv[0]); | |
} | |
int fd = open(argv[1], O_RDONLY); | |
if(fd == -1) { | |
perror("failed to open the file."); | |
exit(EXIT_FAILURE); | |
} | |
off_t offset=0; | |
struct stat status; | |
fstat(fd, &status); | |
const off_t size=status.st_size; | |
do { | |
off_t beg=lseek(fd, offset, SEEK_DATA); | |
if(beg == -1) { | |
perror("SEEK_DATA failed\n"); | |
exit(EXIT_FAILURE); | |
} | |
off_t end=lseek(fd, beg, SEEK_HOLE); | |
if(end == -1) { | |
perror("SEEK_HOLE failed\n"); | |
exit(EXIT_FAILURE); | |
} | |
lseek(fd, beg, SEEK_SET); | |
fprintf(stderr, "0x%llx 0x%llx\n", | |
(unsigned long long)beg, | |
(unsigned long long)end); | |
offset = end; | |
} while (offset < size); | |
return 0; | |
} |
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Thanks for the comment with the code! I honestly got lost all the context around my snippet and even not sure how to test it though. At least I can say yours looks cleaner and better :-)