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Re: [Patch] Update for the testsuite, devdsp


At 03:39 PM 8/21/2004 -0400, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>ltp/truncate02 fails because of the way the lseek bug is worked around.
> Cygwin clears the section past the old EOF during the write following
> the lseek. But the testsuite reads that section just after the lseek,
> without doing any write, and thus the test fails. 
> Is there a deep reason not to clear that section in the lseek call? 
> I couldn't find it in the ChangeLog or on the list.

lseek is just fine, but ftruncate should take the lseek bug
into account on 9x. I will fix that.

Pierre


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