Tool for listing sparse file layout

Wed Apr 2 07:30:00 GMT 2025

On Wed, 2 Apr 2025 at 00:19, Mark Geisert via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> On 4/1/2025 1:53 AM, Mark Geisert via Cygwin wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > On 3/31/2025 8:43 AM, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> >> On 2025年3月31日 at 11:38, Mark Geisert via Cygwin
> >> <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> On 3/31/2025 1:26 AM, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> [...]
> >>>> Could you please add lssparse.exe there? It's simple, single-file, and
> >>>> unlikely to change often (since its function is just to list the data
> >>>> and hole ranges in a file).
> >>>
> >>> I'm not promising to do this, but I'll take a look. Where might I find
> >>> this wonderful tool in source code form? Google drew a blank.
> >>
> >> http://svn.nrubsig.org/svn/people/gisburn/code/sparsefiles/lssparse.c
> >> is the upstream repro, author (Roland Mainz) already gave his consent.
> >
> > Thank you for the contribution. It builds cleanly. Look for an updated
> > cygutils-extra 1.4.17-2 package in the next day or two. I've kept the
> > tool's original name: lssparse.
>> The new cygutils-extra 1.4.17-2 with included lssparse.exe is released,
> per https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-announce/2025-April/012252.html
>
Merci (Thanks)!
Ced
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