------- Additional Comments From sgk at troutmask dot apl dot washington dot edu 2005-07-09 15:28 ------- Subject: Re: FAIL: gfortran.dg/dev_null.f90
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 02:39:34PM -0000, tkoenig at gcc dot gnu dot org wrote: > > > 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. > It's system dependent in that reading or writing /dev/null always succeeds (at least on *BSD). You can't check the return value or errno to see if there is some failure. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21593
