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Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2002 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: SetEndOfFile fix
On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Rein Klazes wrote:
You still need ftruncate in case the file has to shrink. To do
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 22:48:42 -0500 (EST), you wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Guy L. Albertelli wrote:
All the following is on the 2.2.12-20 kernel:
ftruncate would return a 0. However Scandisk said that the file was bad.
The length reported in the directory was larger than the
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002 01:48:06 -0500, you wrote:
This was a great catch. It was the reason Scandisk complained about
OutlookExpress's files (see my message from 1/11/2001). However your fix
still fails on my outdated kernel (2.2.12-20). The attached version seems to
work better on this
Rein Klazes wrote:
BTW, what goes wrong exactly? From the snippet above I understand that
either ftruncate() moves the filepointer when it fails or that the
sequence: lseek(fd,-1,SEEK_CUR);write(fd,buf,1) moves the file
pointer.
For your perusal, codeweavers also had a reimplementation of
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Guy L. Albertelli wrote:
All the following is on the 2.2.12-20 kernel:
ftruncate would return a 0. However Scandisk said that the file was bad.
The length reported in the directory was larger than the allocated space.
Errors were also reported on attempts to move or
- Original Message -
From: Rein Klazes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 2:13 PM
Subject: SetEndOfFile fix
hi,
This fixes office 97 MSword error (disk full or write protected) when
saving files on a vfat partition. MSword calls SetEndOfFile
On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Rein Klazes wrote:
hi,
BTW. A google search shows that the ftruncate problem has been
mentioned at least 3 times on c.e.m.w. in the last 6 months Since
nobody entered a fix, I could be overlooking something...
Not exactly, I think. I remember several mentions of
