VENTI-ZERO(2) VENTI-ZERO(2)
NAME
vtzerotruncate, vtzeroextend, vtzeroscore - Venti block
truncation
SYNOPSIS
#include <u.h>
#include <libc.h>
#include <venti.h>
uint vtzerotruncate(int type, uchar *buf, uint size)
void vtzeroextend(int type, uchar *buf, uint size, uint new-
size)
extern uchar vtzeroscore[VtScoreSize];
DESCRIPTION
These utility functions compute how to truncate or replace
trailing zeros (for data blocks) or trailing zero scores
(for pointer blocks) to canonicalize the blocks before stor-
ing them to Venti.
Vtzerotruncate returns the size of the size-byte buffer
pointed to by buf ignoring trailing zeros or zero scores,
according to the given type.
Vtzeroextend pads buf with zeros or zero scores, according
to the given type, to grow it from size bytes to newsize
bytes.
Vtzeroscore is the score of the zero-length block.
SOURCE
/sys/src/libventi/zero.c
/sys/src/libventi/zeroscore.c
SEE ALSO
venti(2), venti(6)
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