hsc@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Hsuan Chang) (12/13/88)
Hi, folks. Remember I was pleaing for help about the system call "stat" problem? Well, I blamed the wrong one (my appology to the community). But the situation has gotten worse. I searched, with helps from my co-workers, and found that the problem was with the system call "open". (sounds odd, isn't it.) Before the program reaches the stat (well, fstat(fd, &buf) to be accurate) it does an "fopen" and an "open" on the same file, and that's where the truncation takes place. Further studies with RTFM revealed nothing but that you can call "open" with only the file name as the argument, not as the what the manual says! (I called it with "r" though). After I had a few files truncated to zeroes I decided to quit working on this. Would any one of you like to try to find out what's going on? Let me know your findings. Thanks. Hsuan Chang Image Processing Lab Computer Science Dept Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tn 37235 (615) 322-0962 hsc hsc@vuse.vanderbilt.edu