The function should also use ftruncate64() rather than ftruncate() to prevent files over 4GB (not uncommon for a root filesystem) being zeroed. Signed-off-by: Chris Malley Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell CC: Chris Malley diff -r bcbb99849fd9 Documentation/lguest/lguest.c --- a/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c Wed Sep 26 12:21:40 2007 +1000 +++ b/Documentation/lguest/lguest.c Wed Sep 26 14:15:38 2007 +1000 @@ -882,7 +882,7 @@ static u32 handle_block_output(int fd, c * of the block file (possibly extending it). */ if (off + len > device_len) { /* Trim it back to the correct length */ - ftruncate(dev->fd, device_len); + ftruncate64(dev->fd, device_len); /* Die, bad Guest, die. */ errx(1, "Write past end %llu+%u", off, len); } -- there are those who do and those who hang on and you don't see too many doers quoting their contemporaries. -- Larry McVoy