Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 11:33:58 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au> To: fs@freebsd.org Subject: cleaning files beyond EOF Message-ID: <20130217113031.N9271@besplex.bde.org>
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I have a (possibly damaged) ffs data block with nonzero data beyond EOF. Is anything responsible for clearing this data when the file is mmapped()? At least old versions of gcc mmap() the file and have a bug checking for EOF. They read the garbage beyond the end and get confused. Bruce
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