webber@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber) (01/09/89)
Given the current trend toward Unix on multiuser machines, running out of file space on a partition is becoming endemic. The question arises of what is the optimal way of making use of the file space you already have and returning some of it where possible. A program INSERT was recently posted to alt.sources that hinges on the use of ftruncate (2-BSD) to collapse the file to the appropriate size after having written into it. Is there any POSIX/v7 idiom for this? ---- BOB (webber@athos.rutgers.edu ; rutgers!athos.rutgers.edu!webber)
guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris) (01/10/89)
>...the use of ftruncate (2-BSD) to collapse the file to the appropriate >size after having written into it. Is there any POSIX/v7 idiom for this? No.