On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 at 04:53, Mark Geisert via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On 1/23/2024 4:41 PM, Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote: > > On 1/23/2024 3:36 AM, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote: > >> Small bug report: > >> Cygwin 3.5. now has support for SEEK_HOLE (thanks! :-) ), but > >> /usr/bin/fallocate is still missing in the "util-linux" package. > >> > >> Can someone please enable that tool ? > > > > I'll look into this. > > A new build of the util-linux package, 2.33.1-3, now includes fallocate > and its man page. The updated package is now making its way to the > Cygwin mirrors. fallocate requires Cygwin version >= 3.5.0.
Thank you. The GNU coreutils package (cp, mv), GNU tar (tar), pax (pax) and libarchive packages need to be rebuild, as they all support SEEK_HOLE. @Corinna Vinschen Could you please include these updated packages as 'sparse file aware', as they support SEEK_HOLE? Ced -- Cedric Blancher <cedric.blanc...@gmail.com> [https://plus.google.com/u/0/+CedricBlancher/] Institute Pasteur -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
