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From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: PD ftruncate needed
Keywords: ftruncate
Message-ID: <1989Jun17.133122.7777@twwells.com>
Date: 17 Jun 89 13:31:22 GMT
References: <2132@calypso.oakhill.UUCP>
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In article <2132@calypso.oakhill.UUCP> edj@oakhill.UUCP (Eric Jones) writes:
: I am currently porting a C program from a BSD to a System V based
: operating system. The program calls the BSD function "ftruncate",
: which does not exist under System V.

You lose. There is no way to do this in SysV 3.0 and earlier. Xenix,
I think, has a way, and I've heard that later versions of SysV have a
way. However, if you want portability, don't try to truncate a file
to other than length zero.

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