Re: BUG: fast-import, ftruncate, and file mode

Elijah Newren [off-list ref] writes:

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Am I missing something or is this really a file system bug? Surely if we
have opened a file for writing the file permissions when we call
ftruncate() should be irrelevant?
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Oh, indeed, looks like I can't read late at night.  Sorry for the noise.

Was wondering the same thing.

We open for writing, write one object at a time and when we realize
we do not have to, we rewind that stream we are writing into using
ftruncate().  It would be a serious problem if we cannot do that.