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Re: Better diagnostic in io/fs.t

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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
March 30, 2001 06:46
Subject:
Re: Better diagnostic in io/fs.t
Message ID:
20010330084533.U20732@chaos.wustl.edu
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:11:43AM +0200, Andreas J. Koenig wrote:
> Recent linux snapshots have a truncate bug that lets io/fs.t fail in a
> pretty mysterious way. While investigating, I thought we could improve
> the diagnostics for test 23. The patch does not help in this case
> because the whole process disappears immediately on the call to
> 
>  eval { truncate "Iofs.tmp", 5; };
> 
> But I expect other people will scratch their heads when dealing with
> it and might save some time if this patch is in.

Thanks, applied.

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