Fix an off-by-one bug in temp file creation.  Seeking to the desired
length and writing a byte resulted in the file being one byte longer
than expected.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Index: linux-2.6.17/arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.17.orig/arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c    2006-06-29 10:42:11.000000000 
-0400
+++ linux-2.6.17/arch/um/os-Linux/mem.c 2006-06-29 11:42:23.000000000 -0400
@@ -210,8 +210,11 @@ int create_tmp_file(unsigned long long l
                exit(1);
        }
 
-        if (lseek64(fd, len, SEEK_SET) < 0) {
-               perror("os_seek_file");
+       /* Seek to len - 1 because writing a character there will
+        * increase the file size by one byte, to the desired length.
+        */
+       if (lseek64(fd, len - 1, SEEK_SET) < 0) {
+               perror("os_seek_file");
                exit(1);
        }
 


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