[Python-Dev] test_largefile.py failing on Linux

[Skip Montanaro]

    Tim> 1. The docs promise that truncate() will never grow the file.  I
    Tim>    don't believe Unix ftruncate() promises that...

It does not.  In fact, on my Mandrake box it explicitly says that behavior
is unspecified:

    If the file previously was shorter, it is unspecified whether the file
    is left unchanged or is extended.

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