Minor bug in msgs.c
Barry Shein
bzs at BU-CS.BU.EDU
Thu Aug 7 05:08:48 AEST 1986
[4.3bsd]
DESCRIPTION:
If msgs finds an out of bounds .msgsrc it warns the user
and truncates it in preparation to reset it to a more
sane value. Unfortunately, it calls ftruncate() on a file
(.msgsrc) it just fclose'd.
REPEAT-BY:
Set your .msgsrc to some ridiculously high value, run msgs,
get warning message, quit. Look at .msgsrc file, it will
have two lines in it rather than one.
FIX:
Change (the only)
ftruncate(fileno(msgsrc),0);
to
truncate(fname,0);
(the code then goes on to re-open the file shortly thereafter so
it can update it.)
-Barry Shein, Boston University
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