Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Floppy disk strange behavior | Date | Tue, 9 Jan 2001 23:20:04 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> * dd(1) portability bug. Obviously there - ftruncate(2) is allowed > to fail on non-regular ones. Fix is trivial and it (or something equivalent) > should go into the fileutils. > * What should 2.4 do here? I would prefer -EINVAL - it is true > (requested action is invalid for the arguments we got), it is consistent > with other systems and it doesn't hide the failure. Data that used to > be in the file we were trying to truncate is still there. -EPERM is > arguably wrong here - it's not like the problem was in the lack of > permissions.
I'd prefer EINVAL. I agree on the rest
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