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Re: cygwin copy problems usb 2.0


> 
> Theoretically, it's possible to implement posix_fadvise only for offset=0
> and length=<length-of-file>, and have it fail with EINVAL otherwise...
> While technically not POSIX-compliant, it would still allow for better
> implementation of things like copy...

Even better, have it return 0 for success but do nothing when offset!=0
or len!= 0.  It's called posix_fadvise for a reason - the implementation is
free to ignore the advice when it can't reasonably use it.  EINVAL should
only be used when passing a bad argument (ie. outside the range of
defined POSIX_FADV_* constants).

There is also posix_fallocate, which may help the case of cp.

-- 
Eric Blake

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