>
> 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));
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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