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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 09:56:14 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: truncate() improperly returns EBADF
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On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 12:48:41AM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>When using truncate(), EBADF is sometimes improperly returned.  susv3
>doesn't list this as a possible errno value for this function.  In
>particular, ENOENT should be returned when when path doesn't exist and
>EACCES when write permission is denied.

Thanks for the test case.

I've checked in a fix which should rectify this behavior.  It will be
in the next snapshot.

cgf

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