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| -rw-r--r-- | apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc index 3a6bdfe2e..7fbe4d604 100644 --- a/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc +++ b/apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc @@ -1545,6 +1545,9 @@ bool FileFd::Skip(unsigned long long Over) /* */ bool FileFd::Truncate(unsigned long long To) { + // truncating /dev/null is always successful - as we get an error otherwise + if (To == 0 && FileName == "/dev/null") + return true; #if defined HAVE_ZLIB || defined HAVE_BZ2 if (d != NULL && (d->gz != NULL || d->bz2 != NULL)) return FileFdError("Truncating compressed files is not implemented (%s)", FileName.c_str()); |