On Sat, Feb 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM Cedric Blancher via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > Good afternoon! > > Could Cygwin 3.6 please support fcntl(...,F_FREESP,...) and > cntl(...,F_FREESP64,...), as specified in > https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-5167/fcntl-2/index.html > > Lots of older software from Solaris, SUPER/UX, CrayOS use F_FREESP for
QNX and AIX support F_ALLOCSP and F_FREESP > punching a hole into a file, and IMO it'll be nice if this works for > Cygwin out of the box. +1 Please also add F_ALLOCSP and F_ALLOCSP64 to allocate space in a file. Like F_FREESP and F_FREESP64 it takes a struct flock/flock64, so it's a pretty straightforward API. Sebi -- Sebastian Feld - IT security consultant -- 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
