TruncateFile aborts on MSYS/Cygwin #190
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I could not find an obvious way to fix #189.
This patch aborts RESIZE-FILE (for shrinking) on MSYS2/Cygwin instead of silently appending to the existing file.
Which is just a tiny bit better.
If there should be nothing (else) we could do about it, I would advocate documenting the behaviour
(e.g. in README.md),
Hints are welcome.
Output for make test on {Linux, FreeBsd,NetBSD} is now:
... and on MSYS2/Cygwin: