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From: law@super.org (Jeffrey A Law)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: ftruncate on /dev/audio
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Date: 4 Jun 91 18:40:00 GMT
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The following code crashes sparcstations running 4.1.1.  Anyone
know if Sun has fixed this yet?

#include <fcntl.h>
main()

{
int fd;

fd = open ("/dev/audio", O_RDWR);
ftruncate(fd, 8192);
}

Jeff

PS. You can get the same results by rcping from a remote host into
a local /dev/audio.  Cute huh?