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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>TRUNCATE(2)               FreeBSD Programmer's Manual              TRUNCATE(2)
>[...]
> DESCRIPTION
>      Truncate() causes the file named by path or referenced by fd to be trun-
>      cated to at most length bytes in size.
>               ^^^^^^^

>Richard Stevens (APUE) has the following notes on truncate (see page
>92):

>   These two functions are provided by SVR4 and 4.3+BSD.  They are not
>   part of POSIX.1 or XPG3.

>   SVR4 truncates or extends a file.  4.3+BSD only truncates a file with
>   these functions -- they can't be used to extend a file.

Extension is supposed to work now.  This seems to be standard in 4.4Lite.
ISTR it not working in FreeBSD-1.1.  The man page is still misleading in
4.4Lite2.

Bruce