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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-08-19 14:01:29 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2006-08-19 14:01:29 +0000 |
| commit | b35bd50ce62fbb98984560177198b94a7de46d00 (patch) | |
| tree | 9bab2c61e3f66c9d2589b99debcb979e88d68a12 /NEWS | |
| parent | 5f57935678613334bfa18ee547cb1f22a3a0a7dd (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-b35bd50ce62fbb98984560177198b94a7de46d00.tar.xz | |
* NEWS: Fix cp --sparse so that it preserves tail-end sparseness, even
when the file's apparent size is not a multiple of its block size.
* src/copy.c (copy_reg): Don't write a NUL before calling ftruncate.
For some file sizes, writing that single byte would unnecessarily
waste a few file blocks. That write may have been necessary in the
early days of Linux, but now, removing it should be safe.
Based on a patch by Alan Curry: <http://bugs.debian.org/370792>
* tests/cp/sparse: New test for the above.
* tests/cp/Makefile.am (TESTS): Add sparse.
* tests/sparse-file: New file, essence factored out of...
* tests/du/8gb: ... here. Use the new script.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*- ** Bug fixes + cp --sparse preserves sparseness at the end of a file, even when + the file's apparent size is not a multiple of its block size. + [introduced with the original design, in fileutils-4.0r, 2000-04-29] + df (with a command line argument) once again prints its header [introduced in coreutils-6.0] |