tar/tar-1.15.1-vfatTruncate.patch
2006-02-06 11:17:45 +00:00

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--- tar-1.15.1/src/system.c.vfatTruncate 2004-09-06 07:31:00.000000000 -0400
+++ tar-1.15.1/src/system.c 2006-02-03 14:40:51.000000000 -0500
@@ -272,8 +272,25 @@
int
sys_truncate (int fd)
{
+ struct stat st;
off_t pos = lseek (fd, (off_t) 0, SEEK_CUR);
- return pos < 0 ? -1 : ftruncate (fd, pos);
+
+ if ( pos < 0)
+ return -1;
+
+ if ( ftruncate(fd, pos) && errno == EPERM ) {
+ /* wrapper around ftruncate:
+ * ftruncate may fail to grow the size of a file with some OS and filesystem
+ * combinations. Linux and vfat/fat is one example. If this is the case do
+ * a write to grow the file to the desired length.
+ */
+ if( (fstat( fd, &st ) == -1) ||
+ (st.st_size >= pos) ||
+ (lseek( fd, pos - 1, SEEK_SET) == (off_t)-1) ||
+ (write( fd, "\0", 1) == -1) )
+ return -1;
+ }
+ return 0;
}
/* Return nonzero if NAME is the name of a regular file, or if the file