Re: Bug in kernel or libc !?

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH (allbery@kf8nh.apk.net)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 17:40:36 -0300


In message <35E0DB62.1BDD2D30@taraz.kz>, Alex Riedel writes:
+-----
| Please test this program.
| After executing this program file 'test' is 0 bytes lenght.
+--->8

libc only guarantees the effect of mixed raw and buffered I/O after an
fflush(). It's the program that is broken, not libc and not the kernel;
without the fflush() the behavior of the ftruncate() and lseek() is
*undefined*.

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