> The argument to [f]truncate is meant to be a size_t not a ssize_t,
> so probably this is a signed/unsigned bug.
There at least two other places where the kernel uses an int instead
of an size_t (unsigned). I think we've been lucky so far that nothing
bad has happened and for various reason that these other places
haven't caused problems... glibc2 has the right API but libc5
doesn't.
I think I'll look at getting some patches for these two other places
out later today... I don't think anything will break and it might
save us some grief.
-cw
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