libelf: Use posix_fallocate instead of ftruncate to extend ELF file.

This fixes an obscure SIGBUS error when using ELF_C_WRITE_MMAP on an ELF
file that needs extending when the underlying file system is (nearly) full.

Use posix_fallocate to make sure the file content is really there. Using
ftruncate might mean the file is extended, but space isn't allocated yet.
This might cause a SIGBUS once we write into the mmapped space and the disk
is full.

Using fallocate might fail on some file systems. posix_fallocate is
required to extend the file and allocate enough space even if the
underlying filesystem would normally return EOPNOTSUPP or the kernel
doesn't implement the fallocate syscall. Also posix_fallocate has been in
glibc since 2.1.94, while support for fallocate was only added in 2.10
and kernel 2.6.23.

Signed-off-by: Mark Wielaard <[email protected]>

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