I recreated a new development environment and recompiled the rsync code. The
posix_fallocate call worked exactly as expected, immediately creating a file of
the size passed to the function. I tested up to 300GB without issue. I must
have had something set up incorrectly in my development envi
> I can't reproduce this behaviour. I created a 40 Gigs file (haven't 77
> Gigs left) on my XP box using the posix_fallocate function (which, btw.,
> is basically just a single native NT call under the hood) and it takes
> roughly a few milliseconds.
I checked the dodgy app lists.none of those ar
On Nov 2 17:42, Rob Bosch wrote:
> I found on MSDN that Windows has the capfilealloc function in all Windows OS
> versions. This function was designed to create a preallocated capture file
> of a specified size. It seems like this would accomplish what cygwin needs
> with the posix_fallocate fun
I found on MSDN that Windows has the capfilealloc function in all Windows OS
versions. This function was designed to create a preallocated capture file
of a specified size. It seems like this would accomplish what cygwin needs
with the posix_fallocate function? I'm sure it is more complicated th
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