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Re: Create new files as sparse on NT systems. (2nd try)
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 08:23:21PM +0100, Vaclav Haisman wrote:
>> 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.
>
>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?
Yes.
cgf