Re: Cygwin sparse file support: Please support fcntl(..., F_FREESP, ...)

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On Sat, Jun 27, 2026 at 5:53=E2=80=AFPM Cedric Blancher via Cygwin
<[email protected]> wrote:
[CC:'ing Takashi Yano <[email protected]> to have a look]
> The code works for me, but we need this in Cygwin, and not an addon.

I know, I know...

I've attached a prototype patch as
"cygwin370_fcntl_allocsp_freesp20260630_002.diff.txt" ...
... AFAIK the only issue is whether it is OK to call
|fstat()|/|ftruncate()|/|fallocate()|/|lseek()| from within the
wrapper, or whether there is a better way... help, please...

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