* 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.

1 files changed, 57 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tests/cp/sparse b/tests/cp/sparse
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..2842513b0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/cp/sparse
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Test cp --sparse=always
+
+# Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
+# 02110-1301, USA.
+
+if test "$VERBOSE" = yes; then
+  set -x
+  cp --version
+fi
+
+. $srcdir/../envvar-check
+. $srcdir/../sparse-file
+
+pwd=`pwd`
+t0=`echo "$0"|sed 's,.*/,,'`.tmp; tmp=$t0/$$
+trap 'status=$?; cd $pwd; chmod -R u+rwx $t0; rm -rf $t0 && exit $status' 0
+trap '(exit $?); exit $?' 1 2 13 15
+
+framework_failure=0
+mkdir -p $tmp || framework_failure=1
+cd $tmp || framework_failure=1
+
+# Create a sparse file.
+# It has to be at least 128K in order to be sparse on some systems.
+# Make its size one larger than 128K, in order to tickle the
+# bug in coreutils-6.0.
+size=`expr 128 \* 1024 + 1`
+dd bs=1 seek=$size of=sparse < /dev/null 2> /dev/null || framework_failure=1
+
+if test $framework_failure = 1; then
+  echo "$0: failure in testing framework" 1>&2
+  (exit 1); exit 1
+fi
+
+fail=0
+
+cp --sparse=always sparse copy || fail=1
+
+# Ensure that the copy has the same block count as the original.
+test `stat --printf %b sparse` = `stat --printf %b copy` || fail=1
+
+(exit $fail); exit $fail