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Slight bug in split :-)

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>

Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 22:16:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 11761 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, P <at> draigBrady.com
Subject: bug#11761: Slight bug in split :-)
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 12:09:16 -0700

From a filesystem point of view, would it be
more efficient to invoke ftruncate at the end of
writing, rather than at the beginning?  That way,
if the file already exists and is of the right size,
it won't need to be reallocated.  We're not trying
to write any holes, so this optimization should be
valid.

Please don't let this comment slow you down, as your
patch is fine as-is.  I'm mainly asking because I was
wondering about the issue in general.
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