Pádraig Brady wrote: > Voelker, Bernhard wrote: >> Pádraig wrote: >>> Yep I think so. Moving just the install_signal_handlers() to the top, >> >> can we expect this to happen in one of the next releases? >> >>> p.s. I'm still unsure as to why open(O_TRUNC) takes "a while". >>> Perhaps there is a trunc=paranoid mount option I'm unaware of >>> that actually writes zeros when truncating a file. >> >> I guess this depends on the filesystem type. E.g. on another Solaris10 >> box with UFS `dd if=/dev/zero of=$HOME/x bs=1G count=10` takes >> a rather good ~1.5min while the subsequent open(O_TRUNC) then >> takes ~6sec. I don't think zeroes are written there ;-) > > Thanks for the clarification. > I guess the file systems need time to deallocate all the blocks. > Right so the attached seems to address the issue and > passes all tests. I don't see much problem with adding > this to the release we're trying to complete this week.
Thanks for doing that. I agree that is seems safe, so please push it.
