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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Truncating an open file under BSD 4.3
Message-ID: <12801@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 88 01:09:00 GMT
References: <1392@valhalla.ee.rochester.edu> <12684@mimsy.UUCP> <26556@oliveb.olivetti.com>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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-In article <12684@mimsy.UUCP> I wrote that the sequence
->	open
->	write (moves seek pointer)
->	ftruncate
->	write
->will create holes, since the second `write' is not at the beginning

In article <26556@oliveb.olivetti.com> jerry@olivey.olivetti.com
(Jerry Aguirre) notes:
-What is interesting is that even if the open file has been placed in
-FAPPEND mode there will still be holes.  I view this as a bug.

Fixed in 4.3BSD-tahoe (if not earlier).
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