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Re: [PATCH] arm, provide ftruncate() and truncate() stubs.

From: Corinna Vinschen <vinschen at redhat dot com>
To: newlib at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 10:56:54 +0100
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arm, provide ftruncate() and truncate() stubs.
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On Nov 20 09:18, Marcus Shawcroft wrote:
> On 18 November 2013 12:13, Corinna Vinschen <vinschen@redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 18 09:41, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> >> On 14/11/13 17:24, Marcus Shawcroft wrote:
> >> > This one might be a tad contraversial...
> >> >
> >>
> >> But obviously not controversial enough to cause any responses.
> >
> > I'm not fluent in ARM stuff and people enjoying their weekends exist...
> 
> > Having said that, what exactly here is supposed to be controversial?
> 
> Since the stub introduced always fails, the change has the effect of
> moving the detection of ftruncate() functionality from compile time to
> runtime for all users.

Well, that's right.  What about setting errno to ENOSYS?  This would
at least give a clue.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
Red Hat

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References:
- [PATCH] arm, provide ftruncate() and truncate() stubs.
  - From: Marcus Shawcroft
- Re: [PATCH] arm, provide ftruncate() and truncate() stubs.
  - From: Richard Earnshaw
- Re: [PATCH] arm, provide ftruncate() and truncate() stubs.
  - From: Corinna Vinschen
- Re: [PATCH] arm, provide ftruncate() and truncate() stubs.
  - From: Marcus Shawcroft

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