From: "Glass_saga (Masaki Matsushita)" <glass.saga@...>
Date: 2013-07-23T18:30:32+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:56123] [ruby-trunk - Feature #8671][Open] support SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE


Issue #8671 has been reported by Glass_saga (Masaki Matsushita).

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Feature #8671: support SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/8671

Author: Glass_saga (Masaki Matsushita)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: core
Target version: next minor


SEEK_DATA and SEEK_HOLE are whences for lseek(2) supported by Linux since version 3.1.
These are useful to deal with sparse files.
I propose that ruby supports these whences.


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