From 733b2082565a86daac6f2b22a1a27f0b60621b4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Kelley <andrew@ziglang.org>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2025 14:14:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] std.posix.ftruncate: handle NonResizable properly

---
 lib/std/fs/File.zig | 5 ++++-
 lib/std/posix.zig   | 5 +++--
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/std/fs/File.zig b/lib/std/fs/File.zig
index 325a189fa873e7112d857d17ec6e704b2c18993b..fd965babfc6e0de1c01e56ae945fa23a39ec1870 100644
--- a/lib/std/fs/File.zig
+++ b/lib/std/fs/File.zig
@@ -2029,7 +2029,10 @@ pub const Writer = struct {
         switch (w.mode) {
             .positional,
             .positional_reading,
-            => try w.file.setEndPos(w.pos),
+            => w.file.setEndPos(w.pos) catch |err| switch (err) {
+                error.NonResizable => return,
+                else => |e| return e,
+            },
 
             .streaming,
             .streaming_reading,
diff --git a/lib/std/posix.zig b/lib/std/posix.zig
index d8806fe40cbe764d129ef67bfecade217c139b82..54c6470d2c11f1eda31d16c56fe9269b2c6f96e1 100644
--- a/lib/std/posix.zig
+++ b/lib/std/posix.zig
@@ -1052,6 +1052,7 @@ pub const TruncateError = error{
     FileBusy,
     AccessDenied,
     PermissionDenied,
+    NonResizable,
 } || UnexpectedError;
 
 /// Length must be positive when treated as an i64.
@@ -1091,7 +1092,7 @@ pub fn ftruncate(fd: fd_t, length: u64) TruncateError!void {
             .PERM => return error.PermissionDenied,
             .TXTBSY => return error.FileBusy,
             .BADF => unreachable, // Handle not open for writing
-            .INVAL => unreachable, // Handle not open for writing, negative length, or non-resizable handle
+            .INVAL => return error.NonResizable,
             .NOTCAPABLE => return error.AccessDenied,
             else => |err| return unexpectedErrno(err),
         }
@@ -1107,7 +1108,7 @@ pub fn ftruncate(fd: fd_t, length: u64) TruncateError!void {
             .PERM => return error.PermissionDenied,
             .TXTBSY => return error.FileBusy,
             .BADF => unreachable, // Handle not open for writing
-            .INVAL => unreachable, // Handle not open for writing, negative length, or non-resizable handle
+            .INVAL => return error.NonResizable, // This is returned for /dev/null for example.
             else => |err| return unexpectedErrno(err),
         }
     }
-- 
2.54.0