On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 02:18:03PM +0100, Vaclav Haisman wrote: > >This is a little bit improved version of my previous post. >By default creation of sparse files is disabled. It can be enabled by CYGWIN >option sparse_files. > >Vaclav Haisman > > >2003-02-03 Vaclav Haisman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * fhandler.h (allow_sparse): Declare new extern variable. > * fhandler.cc (METHOD_BUFFERED): New macro. > (FSCTL_SET_SPARSE): Ditto. > (allow_sparse): Define the new variable. > (fhandler_base::open): Try to set newly created or trucated files > as sparse on NT systems. > * environ.cc (parse_thing): Add new CYGWIN option.
This is YA case where I don't think that a CYGWIN environment variable option is justified. UNIX has a method for producing sparse files. If this is desired functionality, Cygwin should mimic that not invent a new way of doing things. cgf
