* tests/dd/sparse: The last two parts of this test would fail due to
the underlying file system at least on Solaris 10 with NFS. That file
system would report that a 3MiB file was occupying <= 1KiB of space
for nearly 50 seconds after creation.
Improved-by: Bernhard Voelker
Prompted by the continuous integration build failure at:
http://hydra.nixos.org/build/2188210 (which uses XFS).
* tests/dd/sparse (alloc_equal): Add a block allocation
comparison function that accounts for variations due
to alignment.
Notes:
Small seeks are not coalesced to larger ones,
like is done in cache_round() for example.
conv= is used rather then oflag= for FreeBSD compatibility.
* src/dd.c (final_op_was_seek): A new global boolean to flag
whether the final "write" was converted to a seek.
(usage): Describe the new conf=sparse option.
(iwrite): Convert a write of a NUL block to a seek if requested.
(do_copy): Initialize the output buffer to have a sentinel,
to allow for efficient testing for NUL output blocks.
If the last block in the file was converted to a seek,
then convert back to a write so the size is updated.
* NEWS: Mention the new feature.
* tests/dd/sparse: A new test for the feature.
* tests/Makefile.am: Reference the new test.
