On Wed, 10 Feb 2016 19:49:44 +0000, Tim Woodall writes: >However, should there be a way to >make the invalid file handle point to a real file then it could be used >to truncate an existing file on a filesystem.
restore creates its temporary files with O_CREAT|O_EXCL, which makes that an atomic operation that ensures the filehandle is never associated with anything but the expected temp file. >Below is a patch that addresses this issue. thanks for the patch; i'll apply it (or a variation thereof that does a seek to desired length, then truncates) sometime in the next days and (finally...) do a bit of work on some of the other outstanding issues in dump. regards az -- Alexander Zangerl + GPG Key 0xB963BD5F + http://snafu.priv.at/ Cmdmt. XI: Thou shalt not inflict upon me thy useless prattlings, for I thy God am a busy God. -- Joe Thompson
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