From 71e1134cbce95ecf8b9dee1d3a1c4328419a2aec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Hergert <chergert@redhat.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 13:23:16 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] capture-writer: ftruncate() when creating capture

We risk overwriting existing data leaving our file in a somewhat broken
state. So first ftruncate() to zero so we are starting from scratch.
---
 lib/sp-capture-writer.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/sp-capture-writer.c b/lib/sp-capture-writer.c
index 564437d9..15dcfbb0 100644
--- a/lib/sp-capture-writer.c
+++ b/lib/sp-capture-writer.c
@@ -375,6 +375,9 @@ sp_capture_writer_new_from_fd (int   fd,
   g_assert (fd != -1);
   g_assert (buffer_size % getpagesize() == 0);
 
+  if (ftruncate (fd, 0) != 0)
+    return NULL;
+
   self = g_new0 (SpCaptureWriter, 1);
   self->ref_count = 1;
   self->fd = fd;