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[Bug libfortran/21593] FAIL: gfortran.dg/dev_null.f90
- From: "sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: 9 Jul 2005 15:28:48 -0000
- Subject: [Bug libfortran/21593] FAIL: gfortran.dg/dev_null.f90
- References: <20050515210432.21593.danglin@gcc.gnu.org>
- Reply-to: gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org
------- Additional Comments From sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu 2005-07-09 15:28 -------
Subject: Re: FAIL: gfortran.dg/dev_null.f90
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 02:39:34PM -0000, tkoenig at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote:
>
> > Andrew, is this sufficient to close this PR? The behavior of
> > ftruncate() on /dev/null appears to be system dependent.
>
> Being able to read back from /dev/null is still a bug, no matter
> what ftruncate() does.
>
It's system dependent in that reading or writing /dev/null
always succeeds (at least on *BSD). You can't check the
return value or errno to see if there is some failure.
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