Date: Mon, 3 Jun 1996 09:29:10 +0100 From: rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop) To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, alex@freebsd.org, pjf@cts.com Cc: bde@freebsd.org, dyson@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: bugs [ftruncate] Message-ID: <v01510101add851922d19@[194.32.164.2]>
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At 8:48 am 3/6/96, Bruce Evans wrote: > [...] >> 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. Don't forget that this has to work right for NFS too: I've had problems in the past with non-FreeBSD clients off a FreeBSD server being unable to extend files. -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017 international code +44 118 rb@gid.co.uk fax (0118) 989 4254 between 0800 and 1800 UK
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