> 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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