bigfile.c

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/*
 * Create a large file in small increments.
 *
 * Should work on emufs (emu0:) once the basic system calls are done,
 * and should work on SFS when the file system assignment is
 * done. Sufficiently small files should work on SFS even before that
 * assignment.
 */

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <err.h>

static char buffer[100];

int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        const char *filename;
        int i, size;
        int fileid;
        int len;

        if (argc != 3) {
                errx(1, "Usage: bigfile <filename> <size>");
        }

        filename = argv[1];
        size = atoi(argv[2]);

        printf("Creating a file of size %d\n", size);

        fileid = open(filename, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC);
        if (fileid < 0) {
                err(1, "%s: create", filename);
        }

        i=0;
        while (i<size) {
                snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%-10d", i);
                len = write(fileid, buffer, strlen(buffer));
                if (len<0) {
                        err(1, "%s: write", filename);
                }
                i += len;
        }       

        close(fileid);

        return 0;
}