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From: ghelmer@dsuvax.uucp (Guy Helmer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Gross bug in fs/open.c
Message-ID: <1990Jun28.153540.2584@dsuvax.uucp>
Date: 28 Jun 90 15:35:40 GMT
References: <7028@star.cs.vu.nl>
Organization: Dakota State University
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This looks like a fairly important fix.  From a casual perusal of the
code, how did a file's length ever get set correctly?  Function
new_node in open.c would have been putting junk in the i_size field
of every inode for every new file.



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