On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 12:02:25AM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: > On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 06:33:54PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > To openssh-unix-dev: does anyone think this is worth a workaround? > > Gut feeling is that it should be fixed wherever the problem is.
Yeah, that's why I sent my mail to the CIFS list as well. Kernels won't get upgraded instantly even if it gets fixed right away though, so OpenSSH might want to regard it as a portability fix ... > > The ftruncate seems rather unnecessary if we've already written out > > the required number of bytes anyway. > > Not neccessarily, we may be overwriting a larger file with the same > name. Indeed; see the other part of this thread. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]