----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 4:30 PM Subject: Re: SetEndOfFile fix
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Rein Klazes wrote: > > > You still need ftruncate in case the file has to shrink. To do that > > without ftruncate takes a lot more work then an lseek and a write. > > > > Rein. > > > Right. I meant sort of like this. Unfortunately I haven't an app that > does this, to be sure I have it right. > > Changelog > server : file.c > Lawson Whitney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Rein Klazes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Guy Albertelli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Do not rely on ftruncate to grow a file. It may refuse or fail > to do so. (eg with vfat filesystem under Linux) > > Outlook Express 5.0 is happy (relatively). Lets commit this. Guy
