Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 19 Apr 1999 20:51:36 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: [f]truncate |
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On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, David Luyer wrote:
> > According to both Digital Unix and Solaris, the correct [XPG4] argument > to [f]truncate is an off_t, and the correct return code is EINVAL if it > is less than zero. The Linux documentation I have all give it as a > size_t but I guess that's just wrong, unless someone wants to directly > quote a standard saying it should be (when Digital Unix and Solaris > agree on the standards, typically that means they're right, or the > standards have changed since the releases I have installed). > > (sometime I'll learn to stop looking at Linux manpages...they've led > me astray so many times.) > > David.
Look at the date on the man pages. Some haven't been updated since B became C ;).
I usually just look at the latest 'C' headers.
This is from <unistd.h>
extern int truncate __P ((__const char *__file, __off_t __length)); extern int ftruncate __P ((int __fd, __off_t __length));
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