Eric Blake wrote: > According to Jim Meyering on 4/27/2009 2:36 PM: >>> I'm using glibc-2.3.2 on this machine, for the time being. (I plan to >>> completely reinstall it shortly, after I get just a few more services >>> migrated off it.) >> >> Then don't sweat the ftello failure. >> I think it can't impact coreutils in any case. > > I think that the failure has been reported on several old systems; namely > that the OS does not support seeking beyond the end of the file. However, > doesn't coreutils need to do just that in order to support the creation of > sparse files via cp?
copy.c uses lseek, not fseek. Only one program in coreutils uses fseek (od.c, via fseeko), and it uses it only on a read-only stream, so I think we're ok.
