AW: AW: dd killed with USR1 right after ftruncate()

[Voelker, Bernhard]

Pádraig wrote:
> Yep I think so. Moving just the install_signal_handlers() to the top,

can we expect this to happen in one of the next releases?

> p.s. I'm still unsure as to why open(O_TRUNC) takes "a while".
> Perhaps there is a trunc=paranoid mount option I'm unaware of
> that actually writes zeros when truncating a file.

I guess this depends on the filesystem type. E.g. on another Solaris10
box with UFS `dd if=/dev/zero of=$HOME/x bs=1G count=10` takes
a rather good ~1.5min while the subsequent open(O_TRUNC) then
takes ~6sec. I don't think zeroes are written there ;-)

Thank you & have a nice day,
Berny