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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: How can a file be truncated on System V??
Keywords: link, unlink, directory
Message-ID: <13725@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 2 May 89 17:56:24 GMT
References: <651@mitisft.Convergent.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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  There was a method in wizards a few years ago I believe. It had to do
with using O_TRUNC, which seems to truncate to the position of the
current file pointer. There was a trick with reopen or dup or ??? which
allowed opening of an already open file. Does this jog anyone's memory?

  I think the question at that time was "how do I do ftruncate?"
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@crd.GE.COM)
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