stefan@mikros.systemware.de (Stefan Stapelberg) (10/18/88)
[I am sending this for a friend, please reply by e-mail. -Stefan]
Dear Netlanders,
in BSD systems there is a system call ftruncate(2)
with the following syntax:
ftruncate(fd, size).
The call truncates the file corresponding to the
file descriptor "fd" to the new "size".
XENIX has "chsize(2)" which works similar.
I don't have BSD and I don't have XENIX (guess my system :-),
but I recently got software from the net using ftruncate().
Does anybody know/have an implementation of a function, which
does the job ? It would suffice, if the function would only
truncate to size 0.
Note: creat(2) ist no replacement, because it needs a file
name, but ftruncate() gets a file descriptor only.
Thanks for any hints.
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