From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 4 14:47:45 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 23DA6F28 for ; Mon, 4 May 2015 14:47:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kenobi.freebsd.org (kenobi.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::16:76]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0EC9D17AB for ; Mon, 4 May 2015 14:47:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from bugs.freebsd.org ([127.0.1.118]) by kenobi.freebsd.org (8.14.9/8.14.9) with ESMTP id t44Eli2x063431 for ; Mon, 4 May 2015 14:47:44 GMT (envelope-from bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org) From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 199472] Add extra hints to ftruncate.2 Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 14:47:45 +0000 X-Bugzilla-Reason: AssignedTo X-Bugzilla-Type: changed X-Bugzilla-Watch-Reason: None X-Bugzilla-Product: Documentation X-Bugzilla-Component: Documentation X-Bugzilla-Version: Latest X-Bugzilla-Keywords: X-Bugzilla-Severity: Affects Some People X-Bugzilla-Who: commit-hook@freebsd.org X-Bugzilla-Status: New X-Bugzilla-Priority: --- X-Bugzilla-Assigned-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.org X-Bugzilla-Target-Milestone: --- X-Bugzilla-Flags: X-Bugzilla-Changed-Fields: Message-ID: In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bugzilla-URL: https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/ Auto-Submitted: auto-generated MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 May 2015 14:47:45 -0000 https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=199472 --- Comment #1 from commit-hook@freebsd.org --- A commit references this bug: Author: jhb Date: Mon May 4 14:47:00 UTC 2015 New revision: 282417 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/282417 Log: Various updates to the ftruncate(2) documentation: - Note that ftruncate(2) can operate on shared memory objects and cross reference shm_open(2). - Note that ftruncate(2) does not change the file position pointer (aka seek pointer) of the file descriptor. - ftruncate(2) will fail with EINVAL for all sorts of other fd types than just sockets, so instead note that it fails for all but regular files and shared memory objects. - Note that ftruncate(2) also appeared in 4.2BSD along with truncate(2). (Or at least the manpage for both appeared in 4.2, I did not check the kernel code itself to see if either predated 4.2.) PR: 199472 (2) Submitted by: andrew@ugh.net.au (2) MFC after: 1 week Changes: head/lib/libc/sys/truncate.2 -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.