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Re: Create new files as sparse on NT systems. (2nd try)
- From: Vaclav Haisman <V dot Haisman at sh dot cvut dot cz>
- To: cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 20:23:21 +0100 (CET)
- Subject: Re: Create new files as sparse on NT systems. (2nd try)
> This is consistent with the way the rest of cygwin works, however. The
> same argument could be applied to testing for ntsec. If this was an issue
> then we should be changing the fs information to reflect reparse points.
>
> cgf
I am not sure what is the conclusion here. Should I make it check for
FILE_SUPPORTS_SPARSE_FILES even though it can be inaccurate?
Vaclav Haisman