Tool for listing sparse file layout

Mon Mar 31 15:43:19 GMT 2025

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:
> > On 2025年3月11日 at 11:14, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin
> > <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Mar 10 21:51, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
> >>> On 2025年03月10日 14:01, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote:
> >>>> On Mar 7 15:43, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> >>>>> On Fri, 7 Mar 2025 at 13:24, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>> cygutils-extra
> >>>
> >>>> There is no cygutils-extra package either.
> >>>
> >>> Ahem: you may be mistaken ;^>
> >>>
> >>> https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/cygutils-src.html
> >>>
> >>> Source Package: cygutils
> >>> install package(s): cygutils, cygutils-debuginfo, cygutils-extra, cygutils-x11
> >>>
> >>> https://cygwin.com/packages/summary/cygutils-extra.html
> >>>
> >>> Package: cygutils-extra
> >>> description: A collection of simple (single source file) utilities,
> >>> including banner, conv, cygdrop, cygicons, dump (a hexdumper), getclip,
> >>> ipck, lpr, msgtool, putclip, semstat, semtool, shmtool, and winln.
> >>
> >> Oops, I looked into the cygwin-pkg-maint file only *blush*
> >
> > 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.
Ced
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