Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 09:10:26 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: April <awhite AT user DOT rose DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ftruncate function
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On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, April wrote:

> > Please post a short test program that could be compiled and used to
> 
> For the second call to ftruncate(), redefine MY_MAX.  My HD has 320MB
> free, so it should fail at 400

Looks like a bug in `ftruncate': its algorithm is not suitable for
extending files, because DOS doesn't return an error indication when
zero bytes are written to a file.  In addition, `ftruncate' should
extend the file with zeroes, which it doesn't currently do.

Thanks for reporting this.  I think these problems are easy to fix, so
if you feel like working on this, please do so, and please consider
submitting the patches for inclusion in a future DJGPP version.