[KDE/Mac] system misses support for posix_fallocate()

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

Marko Käning <mk-lists at email.de> writes:

> Hi, when I try to run e.g. tutorial example #2 I get the following warning message on Mac OS X 10.6:
>
> $ ./tutorial2.app/Contents/MacOS/tutorial2
> tutorial2(37163)/KSharedDataCache ensureFileAllocated: This system
> misses support for posix_fallocate() -- ensure this partition has room
> for at least 10547304 bytes.
>
> What's going on here? Is this a message from KDE or rather QT?

It's a message from KSharedDataCache (KDE). Your libc does not implement
posix_fallocate(). mpyne and others should have more details on the
implications of this (nothing should break, though).