file data inappropriately cached after ftruncate

Bug #195477 reported by Forest Bond
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
pytagsfs
Fix Released
Critical
Forest Bond

Bug Description

A file is opened for writing, then truncated with ftruncate. Reads continue to return the discarded data due to kernel caching. This can lead to corruption.

A fix will be available shortly.

Changed in pytagsfs:
assignee: nobody → forest-alittletooquiet
importance: Undecided → Critical
status: New → Fix Committed
Changed in pytagsfs:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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