/usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l 2 myfile takes forever

[Cedric Blancher]

On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 at 09:33, Brian Inglis via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote:
>
> On 2024-01-28 23:44, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote:
> > rm -f myfile
> > touch myfile
> > /usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l myfile takes forever with latest Cygwin 3.5
>
> It takes much longer without Cygwin 3.5!
>
> Your fallocate(1) option -l has no length numeric argument and no -o offset
> numeric argument to specify the start of the range.

Apologies, I typed this from a screenshot, and made a mistake.
The line should be:
/usr/bin/fallocate -v -d -l 2 myfile
like in the Subject

Offset is 0 i this case, because no -o was given

Ced
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