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From: Marc Wiz <marc@wiz.com>
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 05:07:12PM -0400, Ugen wrote:
> 
> fd = open(name, O_WRONLY);
> lseek(fd, size_in_bytes, SEEK_SET)
> close(fd)
> --Ugen

It might help if after the lseek a write() call is done :-)

Marc

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