On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: > This is YA case where I don't think that a CYGWIN environment variable option is > justified. > > UNIX has a method for producing sparse files. If this is desired functionality, > Cygwin should mimic that not invent a new way of doing things. > > cgf >
I am not that much knowledgeable in matters of UNIX standars. What libary/system call is it? My justificaion of this patch is that with this option enable it mimics what this FreeBSD 4.7 box does. I don't need any other syscall than open() and ftruncate() to create 100GB empty sparse file. Vaclav Haisman
