GNU bug report logs - #33761
Allow split to write into FIFOs

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: scottworley <at> scottworley.com

Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 15:33:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: scottworley <at> scottworley.com
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Allow split to write into FIFOs
Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 00:00:18 -0800

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]
TL;DR: Attached: Patch to allow split to write into FIFOs.



Currently, split fails when its output files are FIFOs because
FIFOs cannot be ftruncate()d.  Split exits with this error message:

  split: xaa: error truncating: Invalid argument

The attached patch causes split to only attempt the ftruncate when its
output is a regular file.

[coreutils-split-into-fifos.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]
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