Date: Tue, 4 Jun 1996 04:00:07 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: alex@freebsd.org, bde@zeta.org.au, pjf@cts.com, rb@gid.co.uk Cc: bde@freebsd.org, dyson@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bugs [ftruncate] Message-ID: <199606031800.EAA23582@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Don't forget that this has to work right for NFS too: I've had problems in >the past with non-FreeBSD clients off a FreeBSD server being unable to >extend files. ftruncate() seems to work right for FreeBSD NFS, and there is code to support it in our support disk file systems (ufs, msdosfs, ext2fs). I noticed that it also "succeeds" for /dev/tty. It "succeeds" and has no effect for all special files. OTOH, lseek() returns ESPIPE unless the file type is DTYPE_VNODE. Bruce
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