[Xapian-tickets] [Xapian] #651: Protect writable fds by setting filepos very high

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#651: Protect writable fds by setting filepos very high
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 Reporter:  Olly Betts     |             Owner:  Olly Betts
     Type:  enhancement    |            Status:  assigned
 Priority:  normal         |         Milestone:  2.0.0
Component:  Backend-Glass  |           Version:
 Severity:  normal         |        Resolution:
 Keywords:                 |        Blocked By:
 Blocking:                 |  Operating System:  All
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Changes (by Olly Betts):

 * milestone:  1.5.0 => 2.0.0

Comment:

 Pushed a simple implementation for Linux, FreeBSD, macOS and OpenBSD in
 73b1b80749fc6e71d2a5934449727b1387e0ec75.

 We can enable for more platforms as we are able to test them.

 This is only done for glass currently since honey isn't block based and
 writes at the file position.  We could consider changing that, but glass
 is still the default backend for now so that's where it's most useful to
 add protection.

 No longer a blocker for 1.5.0.
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Ticket URL: <https://trac.xapian.org/ticket/651#comment:18>
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