Re: truncate("x", -1)

From: Chris Wedgwood (cwat_private)
Date: Mon Apr 19 1999 - 12:41:20 PDT

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On Mon, Apr 19, 1999 at 02:01:08PM +0800, David Luyer wrote:

> The argument to [f]truncate is meant to be a size_t not a ssize_t, so
> probably this is a signed/unsigned bug.  The man page says that it should
> truncate a file to at most the specified size, so the correct behaviour
> should be
>
>   truncate("x", -1)
>   kernel: current size 0 < new size 2^32 - 1
>   kernel: return success with no action

2.0.x gets messed up. I've sent a patch to bugtraq and AlanC which I
took from 2.2.x, so hopefully 2.0.37 will be OK.

2.2.6 is fine.




-cw

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