[BUG] file Truncate is it really busted?

David T. Lewis lewis at mail.msen.com
Tue Nov 27 02:47:23 UTC 2001


On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 02:30:48PM +1300, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> "David T. Lewis" <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
> 	p.s. "ftruncate()" is certainly a misleading name. All of the other
> 	"fwhatever()" calls expect to use a FILE structure.
> 	
> That's about as far from true as you can get.	
> There is a naming convention in UNIX system calls that ...
  <nice explanation snipped>

Duh, sorry. Slight case of brain fade. Thanks for the correction.

Dave





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