Nov. 28, 2002
3:07 a.m.
Jack Jansen:
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?
Martin v. Löwis: # 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. NTFS has only supported sparse files since Windows 2000 and then only if you set the sparse file attribute. http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/fileio/base /sparse_files.asp Neil