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From: webber@athos.rutgers.edu (Bob Webber)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: POSIX/v7 equiv for ftruncate?
Message-ID: <Jan.8.18.06.07.1989.6599@athos.rutgers.edu>
Date: 8 Jan 89 23:06:08 GMT
Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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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)