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2008.08.23 00:12 "Re: creating sparse files......", by Edward Lam
On Fri, August 22, 2008 16:02, Phillip Crews wrote:
> If this is for Windows, the simplest solution for the OP may be to store
It is common to use tif_unix.c on Windows. For example, I think the only
way to use a 64-bit compiled libtiff on Windows right now is to use
tif_unix.c. Ideally, we can maintain tif_unix.c to work on Windows as
well.
AFAICT on Windows, sparse files are supported on NTFS, but ONLY if you
explicitly mark it as such using DeviceIOControl. So Rogier's changes to
tif_unix.c won't help on Windows even if it was made to compile by
changing the use of ftruncate() to chsize().
IMHO, the right way is to fix hugin to use TIFFClientOpen(). There's no
need to specialize this case. I might even argue that the uncompressed
.tiff case is not as common as one may think.
> if (mode[0] == 'w' && (mode[1] == 'c' || mode[2] == 'c') ) {
Note that both the c and C flags are already used to control strip
chopping functionality.
Cheers,
-Edward