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| -rw-r--r-- | src/main.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/main.c b/src/main.c index c7669ad11..ddca73322 100644 --- a/src/main.c +++ b/src/main.c @@ -4991,7 +4991,14 @@ operate(struct Configurable *config, int argc, argv_item_t argv[]) fflush(outs.stream); /* truncate file at the position where we started appending */ #ifdef HAVE_FTRUNCATE - ftruncate( fileno(outs.stream), outs.init); + if(ftruncate( fileno(outs.stream), outs.init)) { + /* when truncate fails, we can't just append as then we'll + create something strange, bail out */ + if(!config->mute) + fprintf(config->errors, + "failed to truncate, exiting\n"); + break; + } /* now seek to the end of the file, the position where we just truncated the file in a large file-safe way */ fseek(outs.stream, 0, SEEK_END); |