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Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2024 09:51:18 +0100
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Subject: Re: /usr/bin/fallocate missing in Cygwin 3.5's "util-linux" ...
To: Roland Mainz <roland.mainz@nrubsig.org>,
        Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
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From: Cedric Blancher via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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On Wed, 24 Jan 2024 at 07:33, Cedric Blancher <cedric.blancher@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2024 at 12:37, Roland Mainz via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > -----
> >
> > Small bug report:
> > Cygwin 3.5. now has support for SEEK_HOLE (thanks! :-) ), but
> > /usr/bin/fallocate is still missing in the "util-linux" package.
> >
> > Can someone please enable that tool ?
>
> Good catch!
>
> @Corinna Vinschen
> Does /usr/bin/cp in Cygwin copy holes correctly?

cp, mv, tar, pax must be sparse file aware. Also Schilly star.
Plus /usr/bin/fallocate

Anything else?

Ced
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