Re: bug #41707: RCS 5.8 file corruption when using file descriptor IO for large files

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Achim Gratz <address@hidden>
() Thu, 07 Aug 2014 18:42:40 +0200

   no effort has been spent so far to see why that recursion
   (which ostensibly should have worked) in fact did not.

No worries; we can be flexible (sometimes :-D).  Please see:

 http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/rcs.git/commit/?h=p&id=27ee0c83

Thanks for reporting the problem.

   You've said you had cooked up something to check in configure,
   so if maybe you could post this here before saturday I could
   run that too while I'm in the code.

I have added ephemeral branch "q-spurious-eof" w/ file src/z.c
(see comments therein).  I'm not confident that it implements what
you described; you will certainly have to debug it further.  Once
we get it to reliably demonstrate buggy behavior (exit value 5),
i'll convert it to a configure-time test.

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