Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > According to the cygwin mailing list, > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-02/msg00013.html, cygwin already > supports sparse files when you do lseek beyond EOF during writes. The > trick, however, is that NTFS on Windows XP does not create a hole until 128k. > > Therefore, this patch is needed in the testsuite to turn a SKIP into a > PASS on cygwin: > > 2005-02-01 Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (tiny change) > > * tests/du/8gb: Detect sparse files on NTFS under cygwin.
Thanks. I've applied that. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
