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
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