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Re: fastjar: Small _chsize/ftruncate fix

From: DJ Delorie <dj at redhat dot com>
To: bonzini at gnu dot org
Cc: mckinlay at redhat dot com, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2004 10:30:19 -0400
Subject: Re: fastjar: Small _chsize/ftruncate fix
References: <40FC31D4.7000904@redhat.com> <jeu0w3mxlv.fsf@sykes.suse.de> <40FC6625.8080506@redhat.com> <40FCCB6F.1020706@gnu.org>

Using an undocumented function in libiberty, certainly when not also
testing for it, is bad.

Why can't we use the age-old trick of write()ing zero bytes (not a
single NUL byte) to truncate a file?

Follow-Ups:
- Re: fastjar: Small _chsize/ftruncate fix
  - From: Aaron W. LaFramboise

References:
- fastjar: Small _chsize/ftruncate fix
  - From: Bryce McKinlay
- Re: fastjar: Small _chsize/ftruncate fix
  - From: Andreas Schwab
- Re: fastjar: Small _chsize/ftruncate fix
  - From: Bryce McKinlay
- Re: fastjar: Small _chsize/ftruncate fix
  - From: Paolo Bonzini

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