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Re: dd tries to truncate devices
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From: |
Jim Meyering |
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Subject: |
Re: dd tries to truncate devices |
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Date: |
11 Jan 2001 00:36:29 +0100 |
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Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <address@hidden> wrote:
| Some OSes, like linux 2.4.0, won't permit this.
| Details at
| http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/latest/0857.html
| Patch attached.
Thanks for the report and patch, but 4.0.35 doesn't have that problem.
That bug was fixed for 4.0.33 by changing dd so that it still calls
ftruncate but no longer complains about a failure to truncate files
like /dev/fd0.
| --- fileutils-4.0.35/src/dd.c.trunc Wed Jan 10 16:37:04 2001
| +++ fileutils-4.0.35/src/dd.c Wed Jan 10 16:39:12 2001
| @@ -1102,6 +1102,7 @@
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