Cut off any previous content of the file to be rewritten by passing the
flag O_TRUNC to open(2) instead of calling ftruncate(2) at the end.
That's easier and shorter.
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@xxxxxx>
---
sequencer.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c
index 17360eb38a..f93b60f615 100644
--- a/sequencer.c
+++ b/sequencer.c
@@ -2668,13 +2668,11 @@ int check_todo_list(void)
static int rewrite_file(const char *path, const char *buf, size_t len)
{
int rc = 0;
- int fd = open(path, O_WRONLY);
+ int fd = open(path, O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC);
if (fd < 0)
return error_errno(_("could not open '%s' for writing"), path);
if (write_in_full(fd, buf, len) < 0)
rc = error_errno(_("could not write to '%s'"), path);
- if (!rc && ftruncate(fd, len) < 0)
- rc = error_errno(_("could not truncate '%s'"), path);
close(fd);
return rc;
}
--
2.15.0
