FreeBSD Fortran Failure

[Alexandre Oliva]

On May 13, 2001, Mark Mitchell <mark@codesourcery.com> wrote:

> I think that the reason for this might be that GETC is defined in
> terms of stdio, and ftruncate operates on file descriptors.  So, if
> the stdio buffer isn't flushed by the call to ftruncate, there could
> still appear to be characters present.  Is that possible?

Good point.  We should probably fflush the FILE* before ftruncate, and
try to do something about cleaning up its buffers afterwards (fseek to
the current position, perhaps?)

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