In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Dillon wri tes: > Woa! That sounds like a bad idea to me. If you want to do it right > then open(), fstat(), and only if the stat says it is a regular file > do you then ftruncate(). Passing O_TRUNC to a tape device may be ignored > by us, but it's not a valid flag to pass to a tape device and we shouldn't > do it.
Yeah, I guess checking the file type first makes more sense. I tend to use shell `>' redirects a lot when accessing tape devices. They unconditionally add O_TRUNC, so I know I'd be very surprised if there were side-effects! However for dump I agree that it's best not to make such assumptions. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
