------- Additional Comments From tkoenig at gcc dot gnu dot org 2005-07-09 14:39 ------- (In reply to comment #8)
> Andrew, is this sufficient to close this PR? The behavior of > ftruncate() on /dev/null appears to be system dependent. Being able to read back from /dev/null is still a bug, no matter what ftruncate() does. If ftruncate() does undefined things on special files, we shouldn't rely on it doing the right thing. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21593