Subject: bug#61386: [PATCH] cp,mv,install: Disable sparse copy on macOS

From: Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2023 17:49:19 +0000

On 20/02/2023 15:02, George Valkov wrote:
> Hi Paul, the following tests fail after your patch:
> FAIL: tests/split/filter.sh
> FAIL: tests/split/b-chunk.sh
> FAIL: tests/split/l-chunk.sh

These look unrelated and may be due to some other change in your environment.
Specifically lseek() is failing on /dev/null and returning:
split: /dev/null: cannot determine file size

> FAIL: tests/cp/sparse-perf.sh

As expected.
I've a fix for this locally
which leverages another patch to determine
dynamically if we support SEEK_HOLE.

cheers,
Pádraig