Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2001 13:39:46 +0000 From: Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie> To: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de> Cc: cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Mark Hannon <markhannon@optushome.com.au>, bugs-followup@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/32261: dump creates a dump file much larger than sum of dumped files Message-ID: <200112041339.aa05506@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Dec 2001 13:56:26 %2B0100." <20011204135626.A75212@cicely8.cicely.de>
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In message <20011204135626.A75212@cicely8.cicely.de>, Bernd Walter writes: >> Is there any reason we don't want to truncate the file? Does O_TRUNC >> not work well of the file is a tape device or something? > >I don't expect O_TRUNK to work on devices such tapes and disks. Well, it won't achieve anything on tapes or disk devices, but it should be completely harmless to add the O_TRUNC flag. The current behaviour is likely to be unexpected and cause confusion so it might as well be changed. I'll commit this later unless someone can think of a good reason not to. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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