On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 10:01:45PM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
> 
> Actually, this sets a precedent of exposing holes in files to the API,
> but does it only halfway.  I think that if we're going to do that, we
> should also add a way to say "discard this byte-range, creating holes
> where possible", with semantics equivalent to overwriting with zeros
> except with respect to holes.

IIRC there is an fcntl that does that.

	David

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