Nov. 28, 2002
2:54 a.m.
Jack Jansen <Jack.Jansen@oratrix.com> writes:
Do you mean that on other systems it does *not* create these gigantic files??!?
Certainly not. Being able to seek to some large file offset, then write one byte, without consuming huge amounts of disk space, has been a long-standing Unix feature.
I've always wondered what the use was... Hmm, if this test test support for files with holes, how come that Windows then doesn't have the same problem as the Mac, it also doesn't support holes in files, or does it?
Depends on the file system; NTFS surely does. However, on Windows, the test is not run unless the largefile resource is given to regrtest.py. Regards, Martin