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| -rw-r--r-- | src/truncate.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/truncate.c b/src/truncate.c index c1e966617..d638993d6 100644 --- a/src/truncate.c +++ b/src/truncate.c @@ -370,8 +370,15 @@ main (int argc, char **argv) if (0 <= ref_fd) { off_t file_end = lseek (ref_fd, 0, SEEK_END); - if (0 <= file_end && close (ref_fd) == 0) + int saved_errno = errno; + close (ref_fd); /* ignore failure */ + if (0 <= file_end) file_size = file_end; + else + { + /* restore, in case close clobbered it. */ + errno = saved_errno; + } } } if (file_size < 0) |