On Sat, 11 Nov 2006, James Youngman wrote:
> Actually, the units in which st_blocks is measures are not st_blksize.
> All that st_blksize tells you is a "preferred" IO request size for
> efficient I/O. See the RATIONALE section of
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/sys/stat.
this patch adds a -sparse predicate which is true iff the object is a file
and the size is greater than the number of blocks * blocksize can
represent.
it would be cool if you would consider this for inclusion in findutils.
thanks
-dean
Index: findutils-4.2.28/find/parser.c
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