On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 at 09:07, Cedric Blancher <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 at 11:07, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Feb 16 16:27, Sebastian Feld via Cygwin wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM Cedric Blancher via Cygwin > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Good afternoon! > > > > > > > > Could Cygwin 3.6 please support fcntl(...,F_FREESP,...) and > > > > cntl(...,F_FREESP64,...), as specified in > > > > https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-5167/fcntl-2/index.html > > > > > > > > Lots of older software from Solaris, SUPER/UX, CrayOS use F_FREESP for > > > > > > QNX and AIX support F_ALLOCSP and F_FREESP > > > > > > > punching a hole into a file, and IMO it'll be nice if this works for > > > > Cygwin out of the box. > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > Please also add F_ALLOCSP and F_ALLOCSP64 to allocate space in a file. > > > Like F_FREESP and F_FREESP64 it takes a struct flock/flock64, so it's > > > a pretty straightforward API. > > > > No, we won't do that. We're not adding any new feature to 3.6 this > > close to the release. > > What about now? Could this be implemented for Cygwin 3.7, please?
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