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Diffstat (limited to 'src/shred.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/shred.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/shred.c b/src/shred.c index 6ed4daaa3..4b2b8e92f 100644 --- a/src/shred.c +++ b/src/shred.c @@ -450,8 +450,8 @@ dopass (int fd, char const *qname, off_t *sizep, int type, /* If the first write of the first pass for a given file has just failed with EINVAL, turn off direct mode I/O - and try again. This works around a bug in linux-2.4 - whereby opening with O_DIRECT would succeed for some + and try again. This works around a bug in Linux kernel + 2.4 whereby opening with O_DIRECT would succeed for some file system types (e.g., ext3), but any attempt to access a file through the resulting descriptor would fail with EINVAL. */ |