bug#61386: [PATCH] cp,mv,install: Disable sparse copy on macOS

[George Valkov]

> On 2023-02-20, at 7:49 PM, Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> wrote:
> 
> On 20/02/2023 15:02, George Valkov wrote:
>> Hi Paul, the following tests fail after your patch:
>> FAIL: tests/split/filter.sh
>> FAIL: tests/split/b-chunk.sh
>> FAIL: tests/split/l-chunk.sh
> 
> These look unrelated and may be due to some other change in your environment.
> Specifically lseek() is failing on /dev/null and returning:
> split: /dev/null: cannot determine file size

I deleted the lines that were introduced by the patch in unistd.in.h, then make 
clean; make -j 16 and ran all tests: back to 5 failed. Then I restored the 
deleted lines, rebuild and I got 9 failed tests again.


>> FAIL: tests/cp/sparse-perf.sh
> 
> As expected.
> I've a fix for this locally
> which leverages another patch to determine
> dynamically if we support SEEK_HOLE.

All right! Cheers mate!


Georgi Valkov
httpstorm.com
nano RTOS