[MiNT] ftruncate (was: Re: Coreutils)

[Standa Opichal <opichals@seznam.cz>]

Hi!

Did you try this on the hostfs or on the ext2fs? The HOSTFS filesystem 
doesn't implement this so far. I'm working on it however. Here is the 
mintlib implementation:

int
__ftruncate (int fd, off_t length)
{
        long r;

        r = Fcntl (fd, &length, FTRUNCATE);
        if (r < 0) {
                __set_errno (-r);
                return -1;
        }
        return 0;
}

It would be good to have some replacement for the case when the 
filesystem doesn't support this in mintlib.

best regards

STan


Mark Duckworth wrote:
> Hello guys,
>
> I'm trying to build coreutils and it seems like most of the tools work
> as advertised however some of them are failing tests.  I performed some
> changes to make stat and sort work, and I also added the MiNT specific
> code for df and mountlist.  Now I'm getting a nice failure in dd:
>
> make[1]: Entering directory `/g/coreutils-5.2.1/tests/dd'
> make[2]: Entering directory `/g/coreutils-5.2.1'
> make[2]: Leaving directory `/g/coreutils-5.2.1'
> dd (coreutils) 5.2.1
> Written by Paul Rubin, David MacKenzie, and Stuart Kemp.
>
> Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
> This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
> NO
> warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
> PURPOSE.
> skip-seek-1...
> skip-seek-2...
> skip-seek-3...
> -: test skip-seek-3: mismatch, comparing skip-seek-3.5 (actual) and
> skip-seek-3.2 (expected)
> *** skip-seek-3.5       Thu Aug  5 15:12:16 2004
> --- skip-seek-3.2       Thu Aug  5 15:12:16 2004
> ***************
> *** 1 ****
> ! zyxwv56789
> \ No newline at end of file
> --- 1 ----
> ! zyxwv
> \ No newline at end of file
> block-sync-1...
> FAIL: skip-seek
> ======================================
> 1 of 1 tests failed
> Please report to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
> ======================================
> make[1]: *** [check-TESTS] Error 1
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/g/coreutils-5.2.1/tests/dd'
> make: *** [check-am] Error 2
> root@washi:/g/coreutils-5.2.1/tests/dd>
>
> It's important to note that I applied the patch that I found Andreas of
> SuSe answering on, a patch to priv-check that stops problems in our
> situation from happening, specifically running the check as root with a
> different version of fileutils software in your path, however this
> seemed to make no difference.  For a little while I had the no-x tests
> fail due to access denied issues.  Some things seem a little weird but
> simple usage of all the utils works great.  
>
> Anyway, I was wondering what level of success I should look for with
> these tests?  I'm somewhat curious to attempt installation of the utils
> on my system (building an rpm without make check) and then reattempting
> the checks to see if things improve.
>
> Thanks,