Re: fdatasync() error in shred from coreutils-5.2.1 on AIX 5.2

[Paul Eggert]

Albert Chin <address@hidden> writes:

> So, does this mean writing isn't failing (I've confirmed *sizep == -1)?

That sounds likely -- at least, I don't see any other possibility
offhand from inspecting the source code.

What does "truss" say?  (Or its equivalent under AIX.)

> Pulling the latest src/shred.c into 5.2.1 is somewhat questionable but
> this still seems odd.

Yup.  You should have better luck just building from CVS.