Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 @@
...
_______________________________________________
Bug-fileutils mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-fileutils
