On 11/22/25 5:08 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
On Nov 21 2025, Chet Ramey wrote:Yes, this defeats the bash check. I tend to agree with kre that this is a Linux kernel bug, but here we are.I don't think so. This can happen with any file (even "normal" regular ones) if another process is modifying it just between the stat and the read calls.
The problem is whether or not you think this is something that can happen
to a shell script, and whether the file `shrinking' indicates something
to be concerned about.
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