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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2016-09-10 12:51:27 -0700
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2016-09-10 19:14:44 -0700
commit9b21d9f9110445846dce25c3505c4ee04572fade (patch)
treee133e7d94a10ae19a7f8a4d44974a99151b0ca20 /src
parent0fca290ddff9eabcd2e866b1361cd5b5ba868281 (diff)
copy-file now uses GNU/Linux file cloning
From a suggestion by Kieran Colford (see Bug#23904). * configure.ac: Check for linux/fs.h. * src/fileio.c [HAVE_LINUX_FS_H]: Include sys/ioctl.h and linux/fs.h. (clone_file): New function. (Fcopy_file): Use it.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/fileio.c33
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/src/fileio.c b/src/fileio.c
index bf6bf622ab..b4316b3da9 100644
--- a/src/fileio.c
+++ b/src/fileio.c
@@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
#include "region-cache.h"
#include "frame.h"
+#ifdef HAVE_LINUX_FS_H
+# include <sys/ioctl.h>
+# include <linux/fs.h>
+#endif
+
#ifdef WINDOWSNT
#define NOMINMAX 1
#include <windows.h>
@@ -1829,6 +1834,16 @@ barf_or_query_if_file_exists (Lisp_Object absname, bool known_to_exist,
}
}
+/* Copy data to DEST from SOURCE if possible. Return true if OK. */
+static bool
+clone_file (int dest, int source)
+{
+#ifdef FICLONE
+ return ioctl (dest, FICLONE, source) == 0;
+#endif
+ return false;
+}
+
DEFUN ("copy-file", Fcopy_file, Scopy_file, 2, 6,
"fCopy file: \nGCopy %s to file: \np\nP",
doc: /* Copy FILE to NEWNAME. Both args must be strings.
@@ -1975,7 +1990,7 @@ permissions. */)
record_unwind_protect_int (close_file_unwind, ofd);
- off_t oldsize = 0, newsize = 0;
+ off_t oldsize = 0, newsize;
if (already_exists)
{
@@ -1991,17 +2006,19 @@ permissions. */)
immediate_quit = 1;
QUIT;
- while (true)
+
+ if (clone_file (ofd, ifd))
+ newsize = st.st_size;
+ else
{
char buf[MAX_ALLOCA];
- ptrdiff_t n = emacs_read (ifd, buf, sizeof buf);
+ ptrdiff_t n;
+ for (newsize = 0; 0 < (n = emacs_read (ifd, buf, sizeof buf));
+ newsize += n)
+ if (emacs_write_sig (ofd, buf, n) != n)
+ report_file_error ("Write error", newname);
if (n < 0)
report_file_error ("Read error", file);
- if (n == 0)
- break;
- if (emacs_write_sig (ofd, buf, n) != n)
- report_file_error ("Write error", newname);
- newsize += n;
}
/* Truncate any existing output file after writing the data. This