Re: cp command - problem with sparse

[Jim Meyering]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> According to the cygwin mailing list,
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2005-02/msg00013.html, cygwin already
> supports sparse files when you do lseek beyond EOF during writes.  The
> trick, however, is that NTFS on Windows XP does not create a hole until 128k.
>
> Therefore, this patch is needed in the testsuite to turn a SKIP into a
> PASS on cygwin:
>
> 2005-02-01  Eric Blake  <address@hidden>  (tiny change)
>
>         * tests/du/8gb: Detect sparse files on NTFS under cygwin.

Thanks.
I've applied that.