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Files and Directories Manager ftruncate - truncate a file to a specified length

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4.4.30: ftruncate - truncate a file to a specified length

CALLING SEQUENCE:

#include <unistd.h>

int ftrunctate(
  int    fd,
  size_t length
);

STATUS CODES:

ENOTDIR
A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
EINVAL
The pathname contains a character with the high-order bit set.
ENAMETOOLONG
A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
ENOENT
The named file does not exist.
EACCES
The named file is not writable by the user.
EACCES
Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
ELOOP
Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname
EISDIR
The named file is a directory.
EROFS
The named file resides on a read-only file system
ETXTBSY
The file is a pure procedure (shared text) file that is being executed
EIO
An I/O error occurred updating the inode.
EFAULT
Path points outside the process's allocated address space.
EBADF
The fd is not a valid descriptor.

DESCRIPTION:

truncate() causes the file named by path or referenced by fd to be truncated to at most length bytes in size. If the file previously was larger than this size, the extra data is lost. With ftruncate(), the file must be open for writing.

NOTES:

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