Re: cp command - problem with sparse SOLVED

2005-02-03 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 05:03:36PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Feb 3 16:56, RE wrote: >> Unfortunately I cannot get the version info of cp.exe as I could with the >> "old" cp.exe from fileutils package. > > cp --version ??? AHA! Boy am I embarrassed. The old version used to just respon

Re: cp command - problem with sparse SOLVED

2005-02-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 3 16:56, RE wrote: > Unfortunately I cannot get the version info of cp.exe as I could with the > "old" cp.exe from fileutils package. cp --version ??? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@

Re: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-03 Thread Corinna Vinschen
I'm not Eric, but... On Feb 3 10:54, RE wrote: > Hi Eric, > > Sorry to bother you once again with two more questions: > > 1. How do I address the "mailing list"? By email or by posting it on a > specific forum? you already do by sending it to cygwin AT cygwin DOT com. See http://cygwin.com/l

Re: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-02 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to RE on 2/2/2005 9:27 AM: > Hi Eric, > > Sorry about not mentioning the version. That was really stupid of me. > > I have installed the fileutils-4.1-8-bin.exe package. > > The version of cp.exe is 4.1.1253.32350. > > I am using Win2k S

Re: cp command - problem with sparse [sparse file support under NTFS (Win2k)]

2005-02-02 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 2 17:18, Eric Blake wrote: > > I am not sure whether this is a 128 k problem. I tested with a file that > > had 1 MB of data at the beginning and another 1 MB of data at the end. In > > between there were some 18 MB of zeroes (checked this with a hex-editor). > > I did the following test

Re: cp command - problem with sparse [sparse file support under NTFS (Win2k)]

2005-02-02 Thread Eric Blake
RE yahoo.de> writes: > > I am not sure whether this is a 128 k problem. I tested with a file that > had 1 MB of data at the beginning and another 1 MB of data at the end. In > between there were some 18 MB of zeroes (checked this with a hex-editor). I did the following test on Win2000 SP4, usi

Re: Fwd: Re: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 1 06:48, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > This question came up on the coreutils list: > > Does cygwin provide any support for sparse files on NTFS volumes that > support it? lseek() could be patched to use FSCTL_SET_ZERO_DATA when a > seek jumps pa

Re: Fwd: Re: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 06:48:56AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote: >This question came up on the coreutils list: > >Does cygwin provide any support for sparse files on NTFS volumes that >support it? lseek() could be patched to use FSCTL_SET_ZERO_DATA when a >seek jumps past the end of a file open for wri

Fwd: Re: cp command - problem with sparse

2005-02-01 Thread Eric Blake
is still the issue of when that file is given the FSCTL_SET_SPARSE attribute. - Original Message Subject: Re: cp command - problem with sparse Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2005 10:17:01 + From: jay AT excession DOT spiral-arm DOT org (James Youngman) To: RE CC: bug-coreutils AT gnu DOT