Include Cygwin /bin/lssparse.exe in msys2

[cedricblancher]

Description / Steps to reproduce the issue

Based on the email thread "cygutils 1.4.17-2: lssparse -H does not print hole at offset 0 if more data exists" in the Cygwin mailing list

Please include the Cygwin /bin/lssparse.exe in msys2.
This is a utility (originally Solaris/SUN) to show the sparse block (data, hole) layout.

Cygwin puts this into the "cygutils-extra" package: https://cygwin.com/packages/x86_64/cygutils-extra/cygutils-extra-1.4.17-3

Official upstream source is http://svn.nrubsig.org/svn/people/gisburn/code/sparsefiles/lssparse.c
License is "MIT"

Expected behavior

/usr/bin/lssparse -H myfile.dat should work if file myfile.dat exists

Actual behavior

/usr/bin/lssparse.exe not found.

Verification

• I have verified that my MSYS2 is up-to-date before submitting the report (see https://www.msys2.org/docs/updating/)

Windows Version

MINGW64_NT-10.0-19045

Are you willing to submit a PR?

No response

[cedricblancher]

Please use wget 'http://svn.nrubsig.org/svn/people/gisburn/code/sparsefiles/lssparse.c' to get the source, Chrome chokes on the lack of HTTPS on that machine.

[cedricblancher]

GZIPed source:
lssparse.c.gz

[cedricblancher]

The tool should go into the same package as /bin/ls or /bin/fallocate

[cedricblancher]

GZIPed source: lssparse.c.gz

Compile with:
gcc -std=gnu11 -D_GNU_SOURCE=1 lssparse.c -o lssparse.exe

-D_GNU_SOURCE=1 is required because MSYS2 didn't update unistd.h to Cygwin 3.6 level yet

[jeremyd2019]

The tool should go into the same package as /bin/ls or /bin/fallocate

No it shouldn't. Those are from coreutils. I think you are just requesting an update to the cygutils package. Hopefully they committed to the cygwin-apps git repository this time and aren't carrying it as an additional patch in their packaging...

[dfshelton]

The tool should go into the same package as /bin/ls or /bin/fallocate

No it shouldn't. Those are from coreutils. I think you are just requesting an update to the cygutils package. Hopefully they committed to the cygwin-apps git repository this time and aren't carrying it as an additional patch in their packaging...

It is a patch in https://gcc.gnu.org/pub/cygwin/x86_64/release/cygutils/cygutils-1.4.17-3-src.tar.xz

But @cedricblancher send you the upstream location:
wget 'http://svn.nrubsig.org/svn/people/gisburn/code/sparsefiles/lssparse.c'