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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 20:00:51 +0000 (UTC)
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Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:

> 
> Does cp already use ftruncate?

Yes, when copying from one regular file to another, cp (and mv and install, 
which share the same code for file copies) uses ftruncate.  But it currently 
only uses it for creating holes at the tail end of sparse files, relying on 
lseek for holes in the middle.  It currently does not use posix_f
{allocate/advise), although I think such a patch would be useful independently 
of cygwin.

-- 
Eric Blake





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