Another buglet:
commit 4a64fd8efe00629b0424bb59c8ec8d9d3ef4542f
Author: Pádraig Brady p...@draigbrady.com
Date: Mon Jan 31 22:04:35 2011 +
cp: use a bigger buffer size when writing zeros
* src/copy.c (write_zeros): This bug caused 4 or 8 bytes to
be written at a time which is
On 01/31/2011 03:27 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
It's orthogonal.
--sparse=always still does the hole-punching, independently
of whether we're copying normally or via the efficient FIEMAP-based
code.
E.g., if you have a sparse file, where one non-sparse chunk
contains all-zero blocks
On 31/01/11 21:46, Jim Meyering wrote:
Now that we have can read sparse files efficiently,
what if I want to copy a 20PiB sparse file, and yet I want to
be sure that it does so efficiently. Few people can afford
to wait around while a normal processor and storage system process
that much raw
[adding cygwin and coreutils for a wc issue]
On 01/30/2011 07:04 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Hi,
It is known for a long time that on native Windows, the wchar_t[] encoding on
strings is UTF-16. [1] Now, Corinna Vinschen has confirmed that it is the same
for Cygwin = 1.7. [2]
POSIX requires
