Don't ftruncate() after rewriting blob uncompressed

[wimlib] / src / write.c

diff --git a/src/write.c b/src/write.c
index c1d56de3001d1a37d166d22ec6daa9ee6dce163e..b2e687a8012da94b81dbb19536cc42536b5bfae6 100644 (file)
--- a/src/write.c
+++ b/src/write.c
@@ -769,13 +769,9 @@ write_blob_uncompressed(struct blob_descriptor *blob, struct filedes *out_fd)
 
        wimlib_assert(out_fd->offset - begin_offset == blob->size);
 
-       if (out_fd->offset < end_offset &&
-           0 != ftruncate(out_fd->fd, out_fd->offset))
-       {
-               ERROR_WITH_ERRNO("Can't truncate output file to "
-                                "offset %"PRIu64, out_fd->offset);
-               return WIMLIB_ERR_WRITE;
-       }
+       /* We could ftruncate() the file to 'out_fd->offset' here, but there
+        * isn't much point.  Usually we will only be truncating by a few bytes
+        * and will just overwrite the data immediately.  */
 
        blob->out_reshdr.size_in_wim = blob->size;
        blob->out_reshdr.flags &= ~(WIM_RESHDR_FLAG_COMPRESSED |