------- Additional Comments From dave at hiauly1 dot hia dot nrc dot ca
2005-06-18 16:52 -------
Subject: Re: FAIL: gfortran.dg/dev_null.f90
> The redhat system that I checked, identifies /dev/null as "a
> special file" in null(4). The ftruncate man page specifically
> states the behavior for "regular files". So redhat has wiggle
> room with its use of errno.
The HP-UX 11.11 manpage says for ftruncate:
The effect of ftruncate() and truncate() on other types of files is
unspecified.
The return value from the ftruncate call in the test program is 0.
Dave
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