Allocate file on disk without zeroing

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I need to allocate huge file without zeroing it's content. I'm producing this steps fopen => ftruncate => fclose => mmap => (...work...) => munmap with huge file sizes (hundreds of gigabytes). App hangs on termination for a few minutes while system is trying zeroing file bytes – IMHO because of ftruncate usage.

ftruncate(ofd, 0);

#ifdef HAVE_FALLOCATE

    int ret = fallocate(ofd, 0, 0, cache_size);
    if (ret == -1) {
        printf("Failed to expand file to size %llu (errno %d - %s).\n", cache_size, errno, strerror(errno));
        exit(-1);
    }

#elif defined(HAVE_POSIX_FALLOCATE)

    int ret = posix_fallocate(ofd, 0, cache_size);
    if (ret == -1) {
        printf("Failed to expand file to size %llu (errno %d - %s).\n", cache_size, errno, strerror(errno));
        exit(-1);
    }

#elif defined(__APPLE__)

    fstore_t store = {F_ALLOCATECONTIG, F_PEOFPOSMODE, 0, cache_size, 0};
    int ret = fcntl(ofd, F_PREALLOCATE, &store);
    if (ret == -1) {
        store.fst_flags = F_ALLOCATEALL;
        ret = fcntl(ofd, F_PREALLOCATE, &store);
    }
    if (ret == -1) { // read fcntl docs - must test against -1
        printf("Failed to expand file to size %llu (errno %d - %s).\n", cache_size, errno, strerror(errno));
        exit(-1);
    }
    struct stat sb;
    ret = fstat(ofd, &sb);
    if (ret != 0) {
        printf("Failed to write to file to establish the size.\n");
        exit(-1);
    }
    //ftruncate(ofd, cache_size); <-- [1]

#endif

It seems it does not work with commented line [1]. But uncommenting this line produces file zeroing which I am trying to avoid. I really don't care dirty file content before writing. I just wanna avoid hang on app termination.

SOLUTION:

According to @torfo's answer, replaced all my Apple-related code with this few lines:

unsigned long long result_size = cache_size;
int ret = fcntl(ofd, F_SETSIZE, &result_size);
if(ret == -1) {
    printf("Failed set size %llu (errno %d - %s).\n", cache_size, errno, strerror(errno));
    exit(-1);
}

But only works for superuser!

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