Re: Coreutils 7.2 test failure on Slackware Linux

[Eric Blake]

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According to Jim Meyering on 4/27/2009 2:36 PM:
>> I'm using glibc-2.3.2 on this machine, for the time being.  (I plan to
>> completely reinstall it shortly, after I get just a few more services
>> migrated off it.)
> 
> Then don't sweat the ftello failure.
> I think it can't impact coreutils in any case.

I think that the failure has been reported on several old systems; namely
that the OS does not support seeking beyond the end of the file.  However,
doesn't coreutils need to do just that in order to support the creation of
sparse files via cp?  On the other hand, do we really care that such old
systems can't create sparse files?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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