Re: Floppy disk strange behavior

[Alan Cox]

> 	* dd(1) portability bug. Obviously there - ftruncate(2) is allowed
> to fail on non-regular ones. Fix is trivial and it (or something equivalent)
> should go into the fileutils.
> 	* What should 2.4 do here? I would prefer -EINVAL - it is true
> (requested action is invalid for the arguments we got), it is consistent
> with other systems and it doesn't hide the failure. Data that used to
> be in the file we were trying to truncate is still there. -EPERM is
> arguably wrong here - it's not like the problem was in the lack of
> permissions.

I'd prefer EINVAL. I agree on the rest