[26830] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.4.26: acroread
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Fri Apr 14 13:58:24 2006
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Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:57:22 -0400
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>
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Hi,
You wrote:
>What were you trying to do?
>
>"Save a Copy" of a file to a USB flash drive mounted with attach-usb.
>
>What's wrong:
>
>Acroread complains that I am not a superuser
and Aaron later writes:
>> ftruncate(28, 204184) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
>
>This is the key line -- it seems that the kernel version Athena uses
>refuses to support using ftruncate to enlarge files on vfat
>filesystems
I verified the problem on my home machine running FC4 too, so it also
happens in stock kernels used in widely deployed distros. I'll report
it to Adobe but as I'm sure you know it will only get fixed if they
decide to do something about it...
Alex
