Anyone looked at any Linux cropping tools?

chenxiaolong · on March 22, 2023

I just took a look at spectacle (KDE's screenshot tool, version 22.12.3) and it's not affected. It properly truncates the file when overwriting a file that already exists (after cropping or any other edit I tested). The inode number stays the same, so it's not doing the create-temp-file + rename method.

kzrdude · on March 23, 2023

Android was playing games with the file open mode (open(file, "w") didn't overwrite and truncate), and that kind of change would be unforgivable on linux.

Also on linux you'd quickly notice something was wrong with the file sizes.